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May 5th, @03:36PM

How it works...

The program works NOT to give you free soft because they feel too rich. The point is TO CATCH pirates. That works like that, when you send them your "not original CD," you also send a receipt and a written statement that you bought that "what you thought" was original from such and such vendor. Basically, you make a legal statement that someone duped you by selling a CD that looked like original but also has a "hacked" key code.

So, this method allows people who BOUGHT (not downloaded from newsgroups or mIRC) an OS that they thought was authentic to get their hands on the real McCoy in exchange for the testimony against the pirate. Thus, MS collects info on the places that SELL M$ hacked products as original ones.

It is NOT for people who knowingly got their copy off P2P.
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Mr Preload



This is going to be real interesting for people who bought their PC "preloaded" with Windows from the local Mom & Pop (or savvy family member). I doubt most of these shops give away the CD's (perhaps a CDR?)

Heck, I've done it for my family. My pop's machine started out with a "boosted" copy of Win2k on it. (it is actually a legit copy now, since I upgraded to WinXP Pro and gave him my original CD)
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