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07-16-2006, 10:57 AM
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| Helter Skelter   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: New York City
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| Windows Genuine Advantage False Positives This brief but interesting article on the Microsoft blog provides some statistics and explains some of the potential reasons behind the reportedly high rate of 'false positives' - i.e. systems failing to pass - the Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy system... http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/20...16/667063.aspx
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07-16-2006, 11:50 AM
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| MS can and will spin this and all its future NGSCB roll-out in more ways than there are methods of communication, but the resounding bottom-line still is that it fails unacceptably on genuine copies, and this current failure is with an almost insignificant component of their NGSCB (WGA) ... wait til they roll out more significant components which are much harsher in their DRM-implementation, and these components fail on genuine machines ... I look forward to the s### hitting the fan and MS having no answer to the slew of ensuing lawsuits ... 
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