Piracy - really a matter of few $ to a company?

So what do you think? Is piracy really a big problem. Should it be curbed out of the society to help the Software companies grow? Will that really help? Will company start making a huge profit as soon as piracy vanishes from the communities?

Well if the answers to the questions above are "Yes", I would say, Think Again. Do you really think that Microsoft couldn't have create a software or OS that was completely secure on the first place. Consider the scenario if it would have really done so. If Windows 95,98,2000 or XP or any other windows was completely secure and nobody can just break the barriers and install windows for free, then I think that except for the people at the industry, most of the users might not be having a Windows running at their desktop.

Once people were not familiarized with Windows, they might have started hunting for other alternatives to Windows, something like UNIX or Linux. This would have definitely helped the growth of Open Source community at a very fast pace than it is growing today. But on the other hand, Microsoft would not have been able to capture the market on the first place and it would not have become the pioneer of its time.

Similar is the scene for almost every Software giant, so I guess that the people who use pirated softwares are not to be blamed completely, it might be a strategy of the company itself to promote their softwares and it is not a matter of just a few $$s.

So do you really wanna try a Genuine Windows for free, try this trick out, it won't even require you to reinstall the windows:

There is a serial no. provided by Microsoft for Windows XP, which always detect the system as genuine: "V2C47-MK7JD-3R89F-D2KXW-VPK3J". Now you have two methods to go for this serial no. without reinstalling Windows:

• Either change the serial no. from the registry entry and replace it with this one
• Or go to this link: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml and download the keyfinder. Extract and run the keyfinder, click on options and click "change windows key", now enter this key and you're done.

But I would definitely recommend to use Genuine products/ softwares for your personal and official works. Use of pirated softwares will be at your own risk.