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Weighing Profits against Peril
Mark Rasch, 2004-05-24

Denying XP pirates the SP2 upgrade would hurt the Internet to protect Microsoft's bottom line.

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Weighing Profits against Peril 2004-05-26
Anonymous
A "license checker," at least how you put it, would be ineffecient and ineffective.

How much headache would Microsoft have to go through if they wanted to track down those people by that method? There is no record of who owns what activation numbers. I know because I've never had to tell them...

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