Microsoft to mark illegal copies

[Delta]

In true indian spirit . We will never mind them .

I like your spirit.

I think it can not last long. Every problem has solution or say every solution has a problem!!!!

 

[champ_rock]

has anybody got this message already please post the screen shot, it will be fun to see how the future of my computer will look like

 

[tarey_g]

ok, breaking news someone did it just in three days,

*labnol.blogspot.com/2006/04/workarounds-to-disable-non-genuine.html

 

[sknowonweb]

Those MS guys are really fools to mark the windows Genuine advantage files to be marked as wga*.dll,exe etc . this can make even someone who just entered the field to identify and stop the process .
They must appoint pirates to curb piracy, not in the other way

ok, breaking news someone did it just in three days,

*labnol.blogspot.com/2006/04/workarounds-to-disable-non-genuine.html

 

[REDspot]

has anybody got this message already please post the screen shot, it will be fun to see how the future of my computer will look like

Only the login screen displays a message like "You may be a victim of software counterfeiting" at the bottom of the screen.

This too can be disabled legally by changing the notification settings and ticiking the option that "I understand that I have blah blah .... thing installed and I am a victim".

Truly a victim of Micro$oft monopoly.

 

[theexister]

Why cant you guys just pay for it...typical Indian attitude!!!

 

[abracadabra]

microsoft is serious this time ppl. the programme titled "Feet on the street". it is said that in the UK itself the are going to check around 800 establishments in and around Middlesbrough were piracy is at its peaks. and then why not India

--news source Computer Active UK Edition 06

 

[Akhil Jain]

yes u r right
just do not install that particular patch

 

[kkg_mjh]

I'm Using Original Copy Of windows Xp Home and think i'll not get any kind of messege . but i think i've made a world record for reinstalling it because it never run better for more then 25 - 30 days either the window corroupts or it become o slow that .............. but i like linux

i'm presently using linux and no such type of problem is detected

and this all happen because of windows update after that the windows become unstable

 

[anispace]

well even i have original windows xp home with updates on and have never faced any problem. Its hard to believe but havnt reinstalled it since i purchased my PC last july05 and neither has it crashed(ok it crashed once).

it all depends on the hardware.WinXP(sp2) is the most stable ver of win till date.

 

[Vyasram]

Edit: FatBeing
STOP discussing how to get around this! Helping people hang on to their pirated copies is tantamount to piracy itself.
This in spite of my editing a post in this thread before.

 

[tuxfan]

If M$ can install popup generator, they can also shut down the installtion after 7 days' warning!! Why don't they do that? Simply because they know that people will not buy original copies by all these tricks!! They will look for alternative like Linux or install a patch. They know that piracy is giving them more business indirectly and are now trying pschycological tricks like these. They assume people will get embarassed and pay. But in India these "pirated" logos will be flaunted with pride If someone won't have it on his machine, he will be considered silly to have paid for it

 

[the deconstructionist]

Ms should use practical options and bring down the price of the OS which is too high for the Indian market.By the way, Well said Tuxfan.

 

[shaunak]

till someone dosnt actualy update their system this wont happen rite?
how many pirated copy users actualy update regularly.

2ndly simply instaling a system which can do this or shut down illegal copies will create a vunarability. what if an attacker causes genuine copies to act as ms wants pirated copies to?

Instead of such hypothetical situations MS should apply a practical approach.
1>lower prices
2>Hire a strong guy, give him a strong stick, tell him to go on the road and kick the streetside blackbeard's backside.

 

[Vyasram]

But in India these "pirated" logos will be flaunted with pride

Yeah i use styles xp with the "Windows xp pirated edition bootup screen"

As 4 my previous post, i was trying to explain abt a bug in ms's wga program, and it mite help any ms officer who visits this site to rectify this mistake. And btw since i didnt use any cracks n keygen, i blive itz not illegal to talk abt this. MY apologies if u still blive dat i broke the rules

 

[khansdream]

Look guys...!!!! The posts here are being edited by Mods, so I can't say much.
But I am sure enough to say that nobody is going to feel guilty. May be microsoft is serious this time but piracy is simply not going to stop. They may sell some more legal copies of their OS to corporate but they must understand the fact that we the Indian wouldn't change.....!!!!

 

[borg]

I think is whole thing is a fake. i mean it has been almost 20 days since this thread was started & did anyone get the pirated warning on startup?.

 

[Vishal Gupta]

Its true and not fake!
The reason is no1 will want to say that he is using pirated windows
or the members r very clever here and they just didnt d/l that particular update...

 

[Vyasram]

itz true and i got a warning which i later got rid of . Just beta-testing

 

[bunny01in]

Lets be Indian and take up the challange of finding a hack for this nag screen. (By the way I have already found a site that offers a hack for this screen)