With all the talk about Microsoft’s stepped up efforts to curb piracy through Vista’s new activation methods, it may all be for naught after some crafty hackers figured out a way to crack the Vista Activation Server.
Cori Hartje, Director of Microsoft’s Genuine Software Initiative, issued the following statement to BetaNews regarding the activation crack:
"We are actively monitoring these types of piracy and counterfeit situations, and will take action on any Key Management Service (KMS) or Multiple Activation Key (MAK) keys that have been reported as stolen or abused. Microsoft will continue to make investments under the Genuine Software Initiative (GSI) and is committed to engineering world-class anti-counterfeiting technologies in order to make piracy harder and protect customers and channel partners from the various risks associated with counterfeit software."
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