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FCKGW: How an internal Microsoft leak fueled Windows XP piracy
In context: Piracy has been a part of Windows history from the very beginning. Microsoft began taking the issue seriously with Windows XP, and Dave Plummer has now revealed that the first unauthorized copies of the operating system were actually the result of an internal information leak.
