And yes, I think microsoft is getting a little too uptight on this anti-piracy thing - its gonna be cracked, so they need to quit pretending it won't be.

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Microsoft did not claim that it would not be distributed Illegaly... there goal was to prevent what they refer as "casual copying". Not the hackers who are always one step ahead of them.

you might want to refer to the following link

<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/xp_activation.asp" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/xp_activation.asp</a>