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mschuster91today at 12:24 AM3 repliesview on HN

Lol, they ban a security researcher from Github for embarassing them, but massgrave's Microsoft Activation Scripts isn't just still on Github but verified?

Make it make sense, Microsoft.


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throwaway85825today at 12:55 AM

Pirating windows keeps you in the ecosystem so they can sell ads/games/365/cloud etc.

sgjohnsontoday at 12:45 AM

Microsoft hasn’t particuarly cared about consumers pirating Windows for more than a decade. I’m pretty sure they make close to 0 money off Windows licensing to consumers.

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bananamogultoday at 3:10 AM

Github's anti-piracy enforcement is a joke and always has been.

Example: https://lowendbox.com/blog/will-github-ever-remove-this-null...