Following years of piracy of their operating system, Microsoft has begun upping anti-piracy measures for its early Windows 8 builds.
In recent memory, Windows 7 builds were easily pirated but the company is shutting down the generic volume license keys of yesteryear. Additionally, product keys will no longer be shipped in the prodkey.txt file included in new build packages.
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Originally posted by holyworld: Easy if they sold it at a decent fairer price people would buy it.
Its a waste of time mucking around with anti piracy stuff, if the program can be installed via a disk or usb stick there are ways to get around it.
If it was cheap enough people would buy more copies.
Say $200 for the Ultimate version and $100 for any extra copies. Reward people who buy it, not expect top dollar that people dont want to pay.
MS aren't fussed about the home user, it's a minor part of their market share.
It's the big corps that buy 5,000 or 20,000 copies at a time are the ones who drive the price.
who really cares what price a single user pays when a corp will be paying upwards of 5 million for a bunch of copies.
Anyway, MS haven't been fussing about suing people any more and instead been clamping down on the upgrade side and classing pirated versions as a virus version in the defender program which you need to install/upgrade/run some of the core OS programs.
This looks like a case where you don't have to upgrade but once a SP1 comes out then the OS won't boot up until you upgrade it situation.
