Pirated Vista beats Microsoft to the streets

[hycamguy07]

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01-31) 04:00 PST Beijing -- At least a week before the rest of the world got its first look at Microsoft Windows' new Vista operating system, bootleg copies of the software were widely available here for just a few dollars.. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGQCNS3NG1.DTL[/b]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Days after a beaming Bill Gates unveiled his much-vaunted Windows Vista software at a retail price of $400 for the premium version, Latin American street vendors are hawking pirate copies for under $10.


At a sidewalk stall in Mexico City's grimy historic center, vendor Jose Luis offloaded cut-price copies of the software that cost Microsoft Corp. $6 billion to bring to market.

"Man, whatever it is, we get it damn quick here," he said, taking two bootleg DVDs at 100 pesos ($9) each out of a fake Puma backpack and slipping them into a plastic bag. "They always say it can't be copied, but there you go," said Jose Luis, whose stall is blocks away from where a publicity team for Windows last month formed the Vista logo with their bodies in a publicity stunt.
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This is soooo funny, I thought they wernt supposed to be able to copy this version....

[JimN]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusguy04 @ Feb 8 2007, 01:09 PM) [snapback]387062[/snapback]</div>

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This is soooo funny, I thought they wernt supposed to be able to copy this version....
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Nothing will stay "copy proof" forever. The question is: Is the copy protection really broken or will it just fail to run at some point in time?