P2P File Sharing News Comments – Non RIAA 2006-11-22
Clever crack. An command line command doubles the activation deadline from 30 to 60 days. Then a crack that exploits some bugs and utilizes RC2 files to enable your RC2 serial number to work until the RC2 expiration date, which is June 2007. When the activation deadline passes, unlike Windows XP, the OS isn’t fully disabled, it only becomes major crippleware and nagware. Also the activation and serial-key processes has XP’s WGA fully integrated into it rather than it being a separate spyware band-aid (it may still be spyware though, just integrated rather than add-on band-aid). Microsoft will probably invalidate the RC2 exploit in a ’security’ (IP) patch to the ‘Software Protection Platform’. My suggestion is to wait for the retail version to pop up on Emule. Kegen-generated Retail keys tend to get invalidated less.
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Ares Galaxy has joined the BitTorrent bandwagon! Is the Ares network staying though — ie an Ares/BitTorrent combo-client, or is it going to become a dedicated BitTorrent client? LimeWire I know is going to become a dual Gnutella/BitTorrent client so fresh organized releases will spill into Gnutella for however well Gnutella will handle the large files. Shareaza already does this favor for both Edonkey (Emule) and Gnutella (LimeWire/FrostWire).
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The Pirate Bay is growing growing growing! I like the new wallpapers. I wonder if the piratbyran alliance — piratbyran, Pirate Party Sweden / piratpartiet, The Pirate Bay — has paid off most or all of the high-interest credit card debt they ammased from the recovery from the MPAA raid? Servers and co-lo contracts aren’t cheap, after all
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