iPod Used To Copy Mircrosoft Office Suite Illegally!
I've thought about doing this myself. Well, not this exactly, but something similar. I was at an Apple Store in New York and I saw that they had the dev tools package on the desktop. Not wanting to have to wait until I got back from my trip to start messing around with A.S.S. I thought it would be a good idea to copy it off the computer. They would have let me, too, but I didn't have a firewire cable and they didn't have any spare ones that were convenient lying around. But they weren't sure that it was ok to do. Now that I think about it, I could have copied anything off that computer including all the graphics apps it had (it was a dual 800, so they were showing them off)
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Yeah RIGHT. There are TONS of serial numbers flying around the warez channels and using one doesn't flag M$ police. The only port broadcasting Office v. X does is on your network to look for apps running under the same serial number.
Once the Algorythm for generating Office v. X codes is found it's all over... throw in a name and out pops a CD Key for Office v. X.
(Office 2001 was a total shame... type in 111-11111 and you had a registered version... some code generator.)
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Funny but scary. I'm wondering why they had Office X on the machine anyway!
Don't get me wrong. That is a great way to show customers what MS does offer for the Mac...but...
There's gotta be a way from the hardware/OS side to lock someone from copying files
(edit: There is: "Any Mac can easily be configured to allow changes only by administrators, he said. Also, a system profile tool logs all peripheral equipment, but it must be running to log an iPod. For Macs running OS X, a locked dummy file in an application's package will protect the entire file from being copied without a password."
...but we're talking CompUSA...
"Webb watched the teenager copy a couple of other applications. He left the kid to find a CompUSA employee. 'I went over and told a CompUSA guy, but he looked at me like I was clueless,' Webb said."
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He still needs a serial number, one that has probably already been earmarked as a warezd one by MS.
HA! How'd that get there? :eek:
dang, already purchased office....this would really cut down the overall price of an iPod...not that i recommend stealing....plus, compusa never seems to have any programs i want on their test models...
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dang, already purchased office....this would really cut down the overall price of an iPod...not that i recommend stealing....plus, compusa never seems to have any programs i want on their test models...[/QB]<hr></blockquote>
well, in that case, this should boost the sales of ipods. im going to go get one too!
btw, im surprised too that kid had a compusa in his 'hood that actually had programs on it. over here, their computers are frequently "out of order." lol.
That's my O.
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<strong>mac's girl...i think there is code/program to stop the upload of mp3s from iPod to computer, but not to download programs...if there was no way to download programs, the iPod could never be used as storage or a portable harddrive...g
dang, already purchased office....this would really cut down the overall price of an iPod...not that i recommend stealing....plus, compusa never seems to have any programs i want on their test models...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Actually, you can move mp3's around using the ipod as long as you don't use itunes to move the music to it. It's just data that way. Of course, that means that you can't play those mp3's either. But you could use the ipod to move the mp3s to your computer, add them to itunes and then add them on the ipod. Not too hard. But impossible to stop if you're going to use it as a harddrive (one of the ipod's selling points, IMHO). Hell, even if they added something to the software that says "if filetype is mp3, don't transfer" you could always stuff the files and then move them. No problem.
<strong>(Office 2001 was a total shame... type in 111-11111 and you had a registered version... some code generator.)</strong><hr></blockquote>Actually, that's how ALL Microsoft serials worked for quite some time. At the office I used to work at, whenever I had to reinstall MS Office or something else MS on another computer, I'd enter all 1's for the serial (that's what my boss told me to do!).
~bauman