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Jupiter Jones [MVP] had this to say:

Top posted for a change...

Thank you. Curious what a search shows up for the number... All sorts of odd
things out there. I wonder how people will think keys will go unblacklisted
if they make them that easy to find. Ah well...

Galen


Galen;
That OP has one of the most common if not the most common pirated key.
I have seen it so many times on forums, newsgroups etc, that I
recognize it. Try a Google search on that key.

The web site I gave has this link at the top:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=326904
The Product ID given by the OP is the top ID listed on that page.
The list of invalid Product IDs is not a complete list, just the most
common IDs.


"Galen" wrote in message
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Where did you manage to find that this was a pirated key? I'm curious
because I'd like to be able to keep something like that in mind. I
took a look at the link you gave but your site didn't contain any
information on how you knew it to be pirated. I'm just too curious I
suppose... While I'm posting off-topic - I'll respond to the rant.

I've seen cracks for the free version of mIRC, XNView, and even a
key was floating around for Kelly's Tasbbar Repair Kit which is
pretty inexpensive at something like $5 USD if I recall. Crackers
crack for the sake of defeating the methods. Users use them to steal
the application. Price is not a factor. If such a statement were
true than the thieves would go after big targets all the time and
yet the most commonly stolen items (at the one lone department store
where I worked for a whole 3 weeks and using only their statistics
so it's perhaps skewed data) are very inexpensive items and the most
common loss is due to employee theft. I'd wager that the statistics
are similar for software as you don't generally see people pirating
something like an ERP system. --
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces
of existence." - Sherlock Holmes

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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes