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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
It used to be that MS Windows and Office, Photoshop, Illustrator and a few other programs had such ineffective security that you could swap CDs with these programs and an included key in text form, and install them on as many PCs as you could find.
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You could argue that Microsoft would have never become so dominant if it wasn't for widespread piracy of their software in the early days. It was only after they had pretty much crushed all their competitors that they started taking it seriously and adding extra verification.