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Legendary Microsoft developer reveals the true story behind the most famous product activation key of all time — infamous Windows XP 'FCKGW' licensing key was actually 'a disastrous leak'

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[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

This reminds me of a hilarious side quest in The Witcher 3 where a wizard gets locked out of his tower because he didn't know it was equipped with a Defensive Regulatory Magicon (DRM) when he bought it and the only way to fix it is with Gottfried's Omni-opening Grimoire (GOG). GOG is the game store started by CD Projekt to sell DRM free copies of old games.