Microsoft and the Genuine Advantage: a failure
August 10th, 2005Microsoft's attempts at thwarting piracy through their covertly named "Windows Genuine Advantage" program "have failed":http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/microsoft-back-to-drawing-board-on-piracy/2005/08/08/1123353252441.html?oneclick=true.
bq. But barely 24 hours after the announcement, simple code to bypass the check - a line of Javascript - was posted on the Internet. Within a week, two more methods had been posted to different sites.
Microsoft, of course, claimed [...]