[Psycho_Bunny]

I mean the cracks for getting around whatever they're going to do will be developed and available at Warez sites before the final version of their software is released.

The same way the XP security keys were cracked before Office and Windows XP were shipped.

[Scott McCollum]

XP product activation keys were not cracked.

ISO images containing the corporate OEM versions of Office/Windows XP were posted on multiple newsgroups and P2P sites by open source cultists working for Dell Computers in Austin, Texas.

Thanks to the anonymity afforded by the Internet and so valued by cyber libertarians, no prosecutions or arrests were made. Dell employees and England's The Register all know the pre-activated copies of XP products on the Internet were leaked by open source cultists at Dell.