Re: XP Serial Number Questions

From: choro-nik (choro-nik_at_tvcom.net)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:28:04 GMT

Quite Simple. Some of those "characters" (numbers and/or letters) might be
split up from the rest. So you have 2 groups of characters. One group might
be a installation CD batch number. The second group might not in fact be on
the CD at all . Or more likely there will be a whole range of thousands of
combinations that have been assigned to that particular batch of CDs with
your particular key being one of those possible combinations.

It would thus be possible to burn, say a batch of 1,000 CDs with part/s of
the fixed sectors of the "key" being the same while the 1,000 other sets of
characters reserved for that particular batch being burnt onto the CD in
another file or files. The key for your particular CD will be a combination
of these two sets of characters. 

-- 
choro-nik
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"bbford" <bbford@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:y2Ead.12996$Ia5.12321@edtnps89...
> OK, then this is where I get confused.
>
> If the cd is installed with its serial number (the same serial number that 
> thousands of others have) and you use that same cd with its same serial 
> number and illegally install it into 10 other pc's.
>
> How does Microsoft know this and deny you your Windows updates?
>
>
> "Bruce Chambers" <bruce_a_chambers@h0tmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:ux6SR39rEHA.192@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Buford wrote:
>>> Can someone tell me if all XP cd's have their own unique id number?
>>
>>
>>    No, they don't.  If they did, they'd have to cost a lot more.
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Bruce Chambers
>
>

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