Why pirated Vista has Microsoft champing at the BitTorrent
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversAs Microsoft Corp. gets ready to launch Windows Vista and Office 2007 to consumers, it claims a formidable new foe it lacked at its last major consumer software launch five years ago: the popular filesharing network known as BitTorrent. This third-generation peer-to-peer (P2P) service, already used by tens of millions of Internet users to swap digital music and movies for free, is becoming a popular mechanism for those looking to obtain pirated software.
"Any software that is commercially available is available on BitTorrent," according to Mark Ishikawa, CEO of BayTSP Inc., a Los Gatos, Calif., antipiracy consulting firm.
Or in the case of Vista and Office 2007, before they were commercially available. Both products were released to corporations almost two months ago, but won’t be officially launched to consumers until Jan. 29. But as early as mid-November, "cracked" copies of both products were available via BitTorrent. As of mid-January, more than 100 individual copies of Office 2007 and more than 350 individual copies of Windows Vista were available on the service, according to BigChampagne LLC, a Los Angeles-based online media-tracking firm. The pirates that cracked early copies of Vista all sidestepped Microsoft’s latest antipiracy technology, the Software Protection Platform. SPP is supposed to shut down any copy of Vista not registered to Microsoft over the Internet with a legitimate, paid-up license key within the first 30 days.
Microsoft has quietly admitted that it has already found three different workarounds to SPP. It says it can defeat one, dubbed the Frankenbuild because of its cobbling together of code from beta and final versions of Vista. It hasn’t yet announced success against several other cracks, including one seemingly inspired by Y2k, which allows Vista to run unactivated until the year 2099 rather than for just 30 days.
"Pirates have unlimited time and resources," BayTSP’s Ishikawa says. "You can’t build an encryption that can’t be broken."
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Comments(12)
if it is created by man, it can be cracked by man.
the encryption hasnt been broken - in fact its pretty good, and it will propably take a while until working
keygens and fake activations will come out.
what did happen was that the security mechanisms in vista
have been circumvented. thats a difference.
microsoft must be crapping in thier nappies. but i do agree that people should just buy the software but the
price is a bit crazy. like mm said "if it is created by man, it can be cracked by man."
like a lot of us, i would pay around $50 for vista. but up to $400 for ultimate? no way. welcome to 2099.
i agree, way too much money for vista. bill makes enough money off so many other things, not to mention how
microsoft is always breaking the law themselves.
i got the oem vista ultimate for 199. still steep, but worth it i feel for my main system.
now
that being said, as long as i reboot my laptop at least once every 30 days i'm cool ;)
microsoft won't learn, the more they bang on about the cracks for vista the more people will be drawn to the
hacked version, its the same thing with terrorism in the uk, no attacks then blairs ego went to town with bush
and then all of a sudden we get a terrorist attack, if blair had kept hes ego in his pants it wouldn't have
happened, so microsoft should just keep their mouths shut they make plenty enough money from legal users
anyway, if they didn't charge such greedy prices then people would be less bothered about installing the
hacked versions.
1)cost 2)why do i have to keep spending money on new os when this sould have been windows95 not only to say
me what a peice of work that was. 3)because i can
think about it soney blew it with bata apple
blew it with mac and ford is losing there ass microsoft will be delt with you watch and see big bucks bigger
lossers so what.
pirate bay all the way
give me a good reason, why shouldn't be cracked!
so, guys, put your best to crack it, as if never been
crack before. :)
hello, this is bill gates. what is this pirate bay your taking about? surely it isnt the place where you got
our products ilegally? please inform me where you guys downloaded ilegal software. im warning everyone here if
you guys would stop downloading ilegal copies of windows
bill gates
seriously if that were bill gates, he would know how to use proper grammer like "what is this pirate bay
you're taking about?" not to mention he has a team to find these places. why would he be asking a lonely
forum how to find stuff? bill, if you come on here looking for websites to download pirated keys to your
software, email me at you_dumb@sshole.com
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By MM on 26.01.2007 - 18:01