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FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Back in the days of Dinosaurs and AOL CDs, you could just go to Best Buy and buy a CD with the Windows software and a key was printed on a scratch-off panel.

You could even just buy a key electronically from some grey market websites.

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swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It was still like that up until Windows 8, at least.

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artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Right, well, its not 2003 anymore

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- isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  What’s your point? Is it now somehow no longer doable to purchase product keys in store due to some higher decree?
  
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  - JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Because it doesn’t prevent piracy. Are you dense ?
    
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    isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Why yes, our bodies, and our brains, are designed to be as dense as possible to save on energy! This is why our brains’ gray matter has a lot of crevices so it can fold onto itself.
    
    You can prevent piracy using a stronger keygen algorithm and online activation.
    
    Valve sells product keys all the time, you don’t hear about them having a keygen problem. People just bypass the authentication altogether and simply torrent the software, which is something people still do with Windows 11.
    
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