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- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -4/+321You mean my copy of Windows Vista Torrent Edition™ isn't legitimate?
Oh hamburgers.. - bennybertow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+140It's the one with FCKGW-.... on it...
- __J__, on 10/12/2007, -2/+95why did you buy it if you had no use for it?
That comment is even stranger considering you username... - Anpheus, on 10/12/2007, -16/+109Not really. The most obvious thing to me was the shrinkwrap used.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+54better question: why did you admit buying it?
- solemnraven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51You sunk my Battle Ship!!!!
- trylleklovn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47"someone uses photoshop on her face to make it green like shrek in
3....2....1...."
http://trylleklovn.net/stuff/shrek.jpg - thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -9/+54http://i.n.com.com/i/ne/p/2007/Hartje_400x600.jpg
Is it just me or does she remind you of shrek? - AnarchyIsOrder, on 10/12/2007, -6/+49impressive fakery
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45Wait. So why are people saying that the one with shrink wrap and the red star on it is the obvious fake. When given those two and the question I decided to go for the unwrapped because it was the least obvious choice, but if I saw a pile of shrink wrapped XP disks I definitely wouldn't be tipped off.
Am I not getting a joke or something? - Clearz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36The right one is obviously real because a pirate is never gonna put a sticker on a copy saying "Licensed for distribution only in the United States and Canada"
- MetalUnderShock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Lol, RHQQ2, its forever ingrained in my memory
- darkamster07, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30which one is cheaper? otherwise, I care not
- raindogmx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27I've purchased many OEM copies of XP and the shrinkwrap isn't perfect all the time I even thought the original was the one with tha bad shrinkwrap. But what gave away the fake for me was the lack of labels.
- ArthurSucks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26This just in: Bootlegs look real.
Nothing more to see here folks. - jwsd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26The real question is does anyone care? As long as it doesn't give me constant updates about needing to validate my copy, I will gladly use the "High Quality" fake.
- Jaymoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Um, I'm going to go out on a limb, and say that the version that is being sold by "some guy" in Brazil for $10 is the fake one...
Just a hunch. - billydisaster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25The fake one had a piece of Web2.0 graphic design (the big red star) yet the date said 2002. No way could Microsoft be that far ahead of the curve. Big red stars won't be hitting Redmond till early 2008.
- mindsnare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14For those confused about the shrink wrap being the dead giveaway, both items are shrink wrapped, but one has more imperfections around the edges which suggests it has been manually shrink wrapped. A manual shrink wrap machine is like a big cling wrap roll with a heat cutter, and a big hair dryer which is what shrinks the plastic. If you don't get all the edges you get that fanned effect. The properly shrink wrapped package suggests it's more of a production line industrial shrink wrap.
- speaker219, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13@15thPD
Wikipedia is your friend....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCKGW#FCKGW - Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15someone uses photoshop on her face to make it green like shrek in
3....2....1.... - comradeTJH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I'd hit it.
- ihate2regist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+112B7Q8
- diafel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Wow those crafty Chinese pirates have somehow managed to engineer a cardboard facsimile! How on earth did they do that?
/oh wait it's called a printing press, marked as lame. - jbrown101st, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15@coheedcollapse
Look closer... They are both shrink wrapped. - steven401, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Looks like they're doing a good job with their anti-piracy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12PQGR8 on my end, what's microsoft going to do, sue google?
- avcore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The fake one fooled some people because they thought bootleggers wouldn't waste their time with such an intricate sticker (i.e. the star) compared to the regularly plain and easy-to-find rectangles with rounded edges.
- Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I think picture #4 is the fake.
- SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The brighter colors and the better looking plastic wrap made me think the second one was the real one. If noone had told me one of them was pirated I'd never have guessed though.
- Kamisado, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Done.
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/6210/hartjeshrek6rg.jpg
Edit: Aw :( Beat me to it. Your's is better too :P - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9It's the on where a fake PC comes in, covered in cheap plastic wrap and a red bow.
- sphinx13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The real one isn't on the bottom either.
- FluffyArmada, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah... but it wasn't that funny. :- If you get dugg down, it's not because the Windows people are going to attack you. It's gonna be because it wasn't funny.
- sephiroth965, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I was at journeys once(the shoestore) and the guy in front of me on line paid with a counterfit $100USD bill with Ben Franklin wearing a fur coat and holding a cane on it. The cashier didn't realize it was fake until he was in the middle of ringing me up. He asked me and the other cashier if we thought it was fake(It looked entirely real except for Ben Franklin's pic) and we pointed out that it had to be because Ben Franklin doesn't usually look like a pimp...
- Absolute0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@lowbot
She's in charge of Windows Genuine Advantage Validation.
She deserves it.
>_> - cbbspike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I am visiting Brazil right now, and I am amazed on the quantity of street "software" vendors around here. Everywhere there is this guy with a box full of DVDs for sale. Not only software, but movies, music, etc... Why the hell is the RIAA and MPAA going after America? They should be doing some good down here and taking these guys out instead. These guys are actually making money out of piracy.
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -2/+9I believe the bootleg is the one on the left. You can see that the one on the right has richer colors and a cleaner white in the logo, etc. That indicates the one on the right was professionally printed while the one on the left was very likely "home grown" so to speak.
- Trenton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Who cares? The open source community is very welcoming. Join linux =]
- djepik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Picture 4! its Picture 4!
- kenvibe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6For those of us who are too lazy to copy and paste:
http://i.n.com.com/i/ne/p/2007/Hartje_400x600.jpg - OmegaNine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The one that you cant validate when you get home. XP comes in so many different packeges now a days there is no real way to tell until its open.
- albatross2147, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That's because they are made in the same factory.The Chinese just divert some of the "cabbage".
- friday06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@clearz
A pirate would always put a a sticker that you would thought a pirate will never put.
So what you are telling is that it only take a sticker saying "Licensed for distribution only in the United States and Canada" to make you think the thing is not fake...if I were a pirate, i would be tempted to put the sticker just so you would think its real - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12It's extremely easy to tell there is a difference, but you'd have to have seen the packaging just so before and remembered it to tell which one is the fake.
- cquinnd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The first step to recovery, is admitting that you have a problem.
And even the vendors selling it point out that the copies may not work for long. - atbnet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6You can tell because of the crappy shrink wrap job on the fake.
- shredswithpiks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4not true... when the product is being shipped from a vastly different altitude, shrink wrap like this tends to distort. The first one is how all the OEM copies of windows look by the time they get to the PC shop I used to work at... (shipped from sea level to 6000ft)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@mikehasnoluck
Thanks to helpful people like you, now when we google for a specific string it's getting more difficult to find the answer because all we get is only a compilation of bulletin boards posts suggesting us to google it. Well, duh! -
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