Windos Vista Cracked!

[ai_01]

havoc for MS, this program just inserts random cd keys, until it finds a certified cd key that someone else already owns.

source

 

[Raging]

It was only a matter of time...

thanks for the heads up this some intresting news mate.

wonder what billy boy is thinking now

 

[PP Mguire]

He probably dosent care.

 

[nathan]

to be honest, the bloke who wrote that is a bit of a muppet, there's lots of things microsoft can do. He fails to see that microsoft still have full control of the activation servers and therefor can stop multiply requests from the same ip, or limit it to once every hour.

Piracy is never good, with whatever software.

 

[Trippledence]

Piracy is never good, with whatever software.

While this is tecnically true its something that IS going to keep happening. The toulble is when companys start weigting down there software with anti piracy that makes the operation of the software less efficent. That puts people off, and if anything encorages pirates.

The likes of Adobe's software has been easy to crack for ages, yet there business and educational sales cover the costs, so letting a few home users get used to there software will only aid the sales when they come to use it in business.

M$ should stop trying to change the way the software market works, and put more effort into making the stuff worth buying in the first place.

 

[Rastalovich]

I don`t think we`ll find that m$ will record ip addresses to make comparisons, and I know they`re not permitted to keep records of MAC addresses (unless they tell u prior and u agree).

hmm tbh, under the ground, I thought this was already done without having to do this, prehaps maybe possibly.

 

[JN]

It wouldn't surprise me if some hacker is working night and day right now finding thousands of legit keys ready to sell on his site for a couple of quid each.

 

[Rastalovich]

It wouldn't surprise me if some hacker is working night and day right now finding thousands of legit keys ready to sell on his site for a couple of quid each.

That`s not necessary m8y. There are far simpler ways.

 

[JN]

That`s not necessary m8y. There are far simpler ways.

[fingers in ears] lalalalal i don't want to know, I've just bought ultimate[/fingers in ears]

 

[Rastalovich]

[fingers in ears] lalalalal i don't want to know, I've just bought ultimate[/fingers in ears]

Roger that

 

[Dav0s]

hmm, read this yesterday. i cant see i tbeing as popular as previous cracks mainly due to you having to physically interact with microsoft activation servers...

to be honest, man rings up, tels MS that his key doesnt work, MS check servers to see which IP registered that code and bam, you are caught (whether MS would do anything about it is another matter)

 

[equk]

This sounds a bit wierd.

As Rasta said tho, there must be easier ways.

Altho you could hide your IP very easily.

I don't see MS trying to prosecute everyone who's IP shows up on the activation server as dodgy. The time and money involved in just tracing the IP back to an individual is enough, let alone trying to prosecute them.

 

[limqareb]

well tbh i think more ppl are going for the original and pircay is decreasing , any way i still think taht vista is overpriced

 

[nathan]

While this is tecnically true its something that IS going to keep happening. The toulble is when companys start weigting down there software with anti piracy that makes the operation of the software less efficent. That puts people off, and if anything encorages pirates.

The likes of Adobe's software has been easy to crack for ages, yet there business and educational sales cover the costs, so letting a few home users get used to there software will only aid the sales when they come to use it in business.

M$ should stop trying to change the way the software market works, and put more effort into making the stuff worth buying in the first place.

Couldnt agree more, but on the other hand, if people stopped trying to crack software, software companies wouldnt have to increase the anti-pairacy measure's resulting in a less bloated software. Wonder what the world of software would be like if there were no crackers/hackers. Wonder if it would be any cheaper...