Microsoft used Hacked Warez file in media player

[theultimatekcchiefsfan]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/13/0036243

This is funnier than sh*t.
They got alot of nerve. They dont want you stealing from them, but I guess it doesnt count if they are stealing from someone else.

[theultimatekcchiefsfan]

Like I said they have their nerve!

Windows XP update starts to weed out pirate keys

Pirates invited to upgrade or validate

By INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 10 November 2004, 18:56
MICROSOFT HAS started implementing features in upgrades to Windows XP which specifically prevent users of pirated keys from upgrading parts of the operating system.

We reported on Microsoft's plans at the Dublin System Builder Forum a month ago.

Then, Microsoft said its Genuine Advantage scheme would prevent pirated copies of XP from downloading anything but the most critical downloads.

Owners of pirated keys in Western Europe tell the INQUIRER that scheme has now kicked in. What this means, for example, is that if you upgrade the Media Player to version 10, and you're using a pirated copy of XP, you'll lose functionality on your machine.

Microsoft said in Dublin that it would launch the scheme in China at the end of October, and throughout Europe early next year. But it appears to have implemented it early.

Pirate users are being invited to either validate their copies of the operating system, or to download and pay for a full version of Windows XP. µ

[AeroSquid]

it was not a "hacked warez file" It was some M$ employee using a cracked app (sound forge) to make a sound file that is used in WMP. Not a big deal really.