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Old 2nd March 2008, 07:30 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Microsoft Quietly Rolls Out Vista Anti-Hack Update

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Party's over
Not really, this only effects the easiest software based hacks. The somewhat harder bios hacks and emulation still appear to work.

MS appear to be only going after the low-hanging fruit. People with limited technical know-how who are likely to buy a legit licence rather than than try something more complicated. MS probably wouldn't go after the determined pirates, they know it's to their advantage to have a limited level of piracy than to drive those users to competing products and reduce their market share.
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