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by Anonymous User on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 04:32:14 AM PDT

Microsoft is taking the same route that other software developers had taken unsuccesfully. It is the software developers who will be the loosers as genuine users would be in trouble, they will loose their customers; a couple of months ago a video game developer 'Valve' had taken this 'anti-piracy' step and as predicted many of the customers returned back their retail copies to stores.

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by Banazauk on Mon Feb 13, 2006 at 07:13:02 AM PDT

What i find funny about the whole genuine advantage thing is that Microsoft have put in a back door to get the updates. If you have downloaded the genuine update. Then all you have to do is turn it off in Internet options. I laughed my pants off when i found out. Microsoft appear to be trying hard to defeat piracy but upon closer look they have put in away around it all. All i have to say is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

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by bulova on Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 10:32:13 PM PDT

Just where in Internet Options is the spot where "Genuine Advantage" can be turned off?

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