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solo:
Slashdot posted about a fellow who used WINE to pass the WGA test and downloaded DX9. Since then Microsoft seems to have fixed the error halfway, as my WINE succeeds and the page says validated, but it then asks to validate again. Could be firefox not dealing with the IE-centric crap that is microsoft.com though.

A lot of people raised the question: wtf is GenuineCheck.exe actually *doing* if a completely different implementation of the Windows API can pass, even though they expect real versions of Windows which are pirated to be disallowed.

EDIT: Btw, I'm back at MES baby! Heard Refalm's in charge now, great news!

TB:
It doesn't really matter what Genuine Advantage does, since it's already been cracked:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/28/microsoft_genuine_ad.html

Yep, this whole DRM thing really works. [/sarcasm]

solo:
All Microsoft ever does with DRM is seperate themselves from their users just a little bit more. The legal users are bothered, the illegal users crack it, the alternative OS users laugh.

Jenda:
For us not-so-educated ones: What is MS Genuine Advantage?

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Jenda ---For us not-so-educated ones: What is MS Genuine Advantage?
--- End quote ---
It's a (new) program in Windows XP and Vista to prevent piracy (yea right). It's run anytime you try to update, and if it fails it asks you for the source of the pirate software and if you cooperate and tell them, then you get updates (or do you get a free copy of Windows? I dunno.). Otherwise, you don't.

That's my knowledge of it anyhow.

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