Pirates work around Vista's activation feature

Good work on the hack

"The only parties that would need a KMS crack would be corporations with volume licensing."

Not so sure, i would have said poor individuals surely pirate more than corporations !
 
Ouch & its just over 1.6GB :)

from the nfo
MelindaGates said:
unlike windows xp and volume activation 1.0 windows vista doesnt have any corporate
keys which will permanently activate it. volume activation 2.0 requires a corporate
user to either do a one time activation through microsoft servers (mak) or companies
can host a local activation server which does not talk to microsoft (kms). the only
difference is kms requires re-activation once every 180 days. however as long as
theres a local kms server its simple to keep windows activated. this release is a
vmware image of a permanently activated kms server which allows local activation of
windows vista business/enterprise edition. volume activation 2.0 is only built into
those two editions.

install vista business/enterprise edition with the key XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX.

using the latest vmware workstation, boot the image. disable vmware firewall.

on the non vm vista right click the command prompt icon and run as admin. type ...

cscript c:\windows\system32\s###########

cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.#######

windows should now be activated.

to check activation status type ...

cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -dlv

tested using echos windows vista enterprise and vmware workstation 5.5.3 but seems to
have issues with the billgates windows vista business.
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Letme know if this must be edited as I don't wanna get banned :eek:

Yuu
 
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stix said:
Good work on the hack

"The only parties that would need a KMS crack would be corporations with volume licensing."

Not so sure, i would have said poor individuals surely pirate more than corporations !
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I agree - that guy has to be clueless. My home network could sure use a KMS server. ;)
 
this is what MS gets for being too corky about their security. they juz made hackers even more determined to, well, hack their precious unhackable vista. lol :D
 
just shows if there is a window(s) then there is a way.
 
Vista is so bloated and slow that I wouldn't install it even if M$ were paying me to do it, let alone it being free. This just proves that crackers crack not for profit but for fun. It's not like Vista is the new AutoCAD or Maya or
Final Cut Pro or something actually useful.
 
PIRACY is WRONG!

Pirating games, music, movies, shows, programs is illegal! Those people, (could be you) are costing thousands of people their jobs! and good companies millions each year!
 
saffakanera said:
PIRACY is WRONG!

Pirating games, music, movies, shows, programs is illegal! Those people, (could be you) are costing thousands of people their jobs! and good companies millions each year!
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It is not "piracy" - at worst it is copyright infringement - there are no ships, sea, jolly rogers or parrots.
 
AAAArg Jim lad, shiver me timbers.

In buying some software nowadays you are purchasing the right to use it, not just owning it. Like AV, install it but have to pay for updates, the right to use it on one pc and not share it. Or buy music and dont re-distribute it, publicly play it

Fortunately it is limited to such and not your car - the right to use it 9 - 5 and at weekends, dont let anyone else drive it or fix it....
 
Right...

So a company (Not necessarilly Microsoft) spends bucketloads full of money developing an application. Much (Most?) of those bucketloads are spent on putting food in the developers' mouths. HUMAN BEINGS, people!
So this company releases said software with high hopes, having spent said bucketloads of money. 6 months later, a million copies are in circulation - only one paid for! Company doesn't have a hope in hell of recouping it's capital (Raising the price of the software to cater for the legal:illegal users ratio would seem to be the only way, but obviously this increases the number is illegal users). Company either goes under or lays off developers. HUMAN BEINGS, people!

Really. If I can afford it, I'll buy it. If I can't afford it, I'll do without it. But if less people pirated it, I'd probably be able to afford it. :mad:
 
Right.....

So a small startup company spends a small amount of money and by fluke discovers a low-cost cure for AIDS. They start selling it at R1gazillion per treatment. 6 months later a million people have died because they did not have the R1gazillion. HUMAN BEINGS, people!

The point is that there should be a balance between the rights of the intellectual-property-holder and the end-user.
 
Windows Vista isn't going to cure AIDS. :p

I agree license agreements are restrictive. Used to be, you "owned" the software you purchased, or all intents and purposes, anyway. Used to be you were allowed to "make backups for personal use only." Used to be you could transfer your ownership of the software without too much mess.

Restrictive license agreements are a (poor) method of helping to curb privacy. They obviously haven't worked, and it seems they've had the opposite effect.

Circular argument yet again - if there were no piracy, there wouldn't be licensing agreements (Possibly not at all, at least not nearly as restrictive as they are now). Rules exist to keep honest men honest, as my ex-boss always used to say.
 
Nocturne said:
Circular argument yet again - if there were no piracy, there wouldn't be licensing agreements (Possibly not at all, at least not nearly as restrictive as they are now). Rules exist to keep honest men honest, as my ex-boss always used to say.
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Sounds pretty stupid to me.

License agreements came first. They have nothing to do with using software without paying. They're also possibly non-enforceable.

Whether you can make backups depends on your local law.

Nocturne said:
So a company (Not necessarilly Microsoft) spends bucketloads full of money developing an application. Much (Most?) of those bucketloads are spent on putting food in the developers' mouths. HUMAN BEINGS, people!
So this company releases said software with high hopes, having spent said bucketloads of money. 6 months later, a million copies are in circulation - only one paid for! Company doesn't have a hope in hell of recouping it's capital (Raising the price of the software to cater for the legal:illegal users ratio would seem to be the only way, but obviously this increases the number is illegal users). Company either goes under or lays off developers. HUMAN BEINGS, people!
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Name one such company?

saffakanera said:
PIRACY is WRONG!

Pirating games, music, movies, shows, programs is illegal! Those people, (could be you) are costing thousands of people their jobs! and good companies millions each year!
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Yeah, yeah. Does your mother know you're using so much crystal meth?
 
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