Windows Vista Copy Protection Cracked
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 5.3.2008
More than a year after Windows Vista was introduced, hackers have finally developed a clean crack of Windows Vista.
There have been a variety of workarounds for Vista's copy protection before now, but this is the first time someone has figured out a way to install a cracked version that would pass all of Microsoft's various anti-piracy checks. It seems that certain OEMs found the activation process too burdensome and persuaded Microsoft to provide them with a way to bypass it in order to save their own customers the hassle. Hackers figured out how to activate this special "no activation" mode on cracked copies of Vista. I think this is one of the biggest reasons copy protection schemes fail: they almost always creates serious inconveniences for customers, and irritating customers hurts the bottom line. Companies may talk a tough line about fighting piracy, but when push comes to shove, they're not willing to cut off their own nose to spite their face by insisting on enforcing a copy protection scheme that would put their product at a disadvantage in the marketplace.
Of course, the obvious question is why companies implement copy protection schemes in the first place if they invariably wind up compromising them. The reason, I think, is that these trade-offs are almost never made explicit to corporate decision makers ahead of time. When the copy protection plan is being pitched to management, its developers only talk about how great it will work. Only later, once it's actually being implemented, do people start noticing that it will also cause a lot of problems.
But by that time, the copy protection system is too far along the development process to be canned, so instead exceptions are added. These exceptions prevent the copy protection system from crippling the product, but they also undermine its effectiveness as an anti-piracy measure. So customers have to deal with annoying restrictions and the product still gets pirated.
UPDATE: Uh oh! As some readers are pointing out, it looks like this story is actually from March 4, 2007. Somebody submitted the story to Slashdot, and I foolishly linked to it without double-checking the date. My apologies for the oversight. In retrospect, I should have been more suspicious, because if Vista really went more than a year without a crack, that would probably have set some kind of record.
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Comments(25)
happens to the best! ;)
took then a year to figure this out they had the oem hack out within a month iof vistas
rtm
there is a #1 bypass around activation, involving oem activation. guaranteed to work
forever, or esle oem systems would lose their contracts. i'll give u 3 hints:
.xrm-ms
oem license key
slic table.
good luck. i figured it out!
if this is an old post from last year then why is it up on keznews front page?
don't just put an update at the very end of the article saying this is old news. take
the page off your site!
windows vista activator 1.0
windows version to activate
1.
microsoft windows vista ultimate edition
2. microsoft windows vista business edition
3. microsoft windows vista starter edition
4. microsoft windows vista
enterprises edition
5. microsoft windows vista home basic edition
6. microsoft
windows vista home premium edition
how to activate windows vista
1.
extract the archive
2. run “windows vista 2007.exe”
3. enter “user account” name
and “computer name”
4. enter the cd-key you used while installing your vista.
5.
this will take a minute to activate windows vista.
year back
update: uh oh! as some readers are pointing out, it looks like this story is actually
from march 4, 2007. somebody submitted the story to slashdot, and i foolishly linked to it
without double-checking the date. my apologies for the oversight. in retrospect, i should
have been more suspicious, because if vista really went more than a year without a crack,
that would probably have set some kind of record.
the windows vista loader v2.1.2 works fine with sp1 without problems and you can also do
updates!
whats the password? thanks
password?
vista is a truly horrible operating system! why would anyone use such in-organic,
patent-ridden, drm-bashing plastic-fantastic nonsense? to sum it up: i don't know...
you left the 'p' off the front of your name.
vistaloader
vista rubbish
by rick on 06.03.2008 - 13:03
vista is a truly horrible
operating system! why would anyone use such in-organic, patent-ridden, drm-bashing
plastic-fantastic nonsense? to sum it up: i don't know...
each and every new
issue of windows will be the same from now on, just an excuse to make money for computer
manufacturers, as the specs to run windows increases with each issue causing people to pay
millions on new components to be able to stay with them.
however there is only
one person to blame and that is yourselves, because you go out buying it or pirating it,
without doing something about it, like maybe boycotting the software. windows xp is about
their most stable os after windows 3.11, look how many dummys they sold in between and the
dummys that bought them.
pasword??? tks
rofl admin copied and pasted the whole thing without even reading it.....
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080303/083249411.shtml
what a challenge!
for those who blah blah blah: go s.uck my d.ick eat my dog's c.ock, lick hillary's
p.ưsy, and enjoy clinton's ass
childish mao,
your mother and father should never have been allowed to breed. your
nuts should be removed and shoved down your filthy mouth you little twit. is it fun to sit
in your fart filled chair and post crap? your a moron dude.
i used a crack to activate my vista but an update detects it now, is there a better crack
for sp1 or for the old ultimate version and what is vista loader, does windows updates
even with the presence of this crack???
sounds like you work for micro$uck
i agree with "a gentleman" mao why are you writing this shit like s.uck my d.ick eat my
dogs co.ck it makes you sound like a childish yank theres no doubt that you are but its
disgusting did you expect a comment from someone saying how cool you sound or something?
time stoppper from clony soft includes trogen horse generic/v3.vbs
there is a current crack to validate vista, i tried it, it was very easy to do, and it
worked! it stopped all the timers at 30 days permantly... {straight hack on v-home-prem)
when i try it by no key no activation and choose ultimate from the list on the home cd, it
installs ultimate ok but the crack only kills 3 timers not 4..and the activation isnt
disabled.. working on it....
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LOL,yeah,old news...
By rucamx on 06.03.2008 - 01:03