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Plus! Digital Media Edition Broken in :)

Posted by Tom Warren on 03 February 2003 - 01:59 · 37 comments & 2288 views

A group called the "Holics Project" have again, according to various reliable resources, successfully released a working "crack" that disables Plus! Digital Media Edition's WPA (Windows Product Activation) module. The group responsible for cracking Office 11 seem to have done it again.

Microsoft's first test of a home user product with activation has been broken. A reliable source has informed me that the "crack" works as-long as you don't have DME installed and any previous Plus! packs installed. The crack itself consists of just a registry file which is run before "Activation".

At the moment there has been no comment or response from Microsoft, although I expect a "patch" will likely be made available to render the crack useless and fix any slight bugs in the program itself. Until then it appears its crackers one ;), Microsoft nill.

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#1 Posted by JZolloXP on 03 Feb 2003 - 02:07: Why do they even bother with product activation in the first place? They're only annoying legit users who now have to pay for multiple copies of the products, while us pirates just install the cracked editions. Arrr me mateys, tis a good day!

#2 Posted by CarbonKnight on 03 Feb 2003 - 02:09: Yeah I was seriously wondering how long it would take for it to be cracked. I wasn't holding my breath of course, because I didn't think any crackers would give a damn about some crappy program. Perhaps they cracked it to show off?

#3 Posted by MasterMind on 03 Feb 2003 - 02:12: yes sir. I think they know how to use google, however.

(4 replies) #4 Posted by Briandl79 on 03 Feb 2003 - 02:18: This is old news, this crack was released almost a week ago....

(3 replies) #5 Posted by y_notm on 03 Feb 2003 - 02:23: there's a crack? i just changed a few registry entries

#6 Posted by nekrosoft13 on 03 Feb 2003 - 02:31: hmm i'm kind of interested in the alarm clock thingy

#7 Posted by youm0nt on 03 Feb 2003 - 02:33: oh yea ive had it cracked for a few day :ph3ar: but i uninstalled it since i never used it.wasnt that great imo

(2 replies) #8 Posted by vijushsun on 03 Feb 2003 - 02:39: hey can anybody help me in reactivating the plus!dme edition..i changed my computer hardware...how to change the registry entries y_notm

#9 Posted by pocket cd-r on 03 Feb 2003 - 02:51: all i can say is hahahaha

#10 Posted by DigitalDude on 03 Feb 2003 - 03:02: i already found me a key using google

#11 Posted by barrelrider_and_sting on 03 Feb 2003 - 03:43: that article was very nice to remind me of another program I wanted to...ahem...purchase. sweet DK

#12 Posted by skooter on 03 Feb 2003 - 04:03: Neowin's double standard strikes again!

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#13 Posted by Ji@nBing on 03 Feb 2003 - 04:08: damn, i can't find it

#14 Posted by CarbonKnight on 03 Feb 2003 - 04:33: me neither

(1 reply) #15 Posted by guru on 03 Feb 2003 - 05:53: theres a regisrty crack thats floating around for weeks that works

#16 Posted by deron dantzler on 03 Feb 2003 - 05:57: Please read the article clearly, thank you.

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(1 reply) #17 Posted by bmetelsky on 03 Feb 2003 - 06:32: I agree with the double standard issue here. I am surprised that this article was posted in the first place - and now even more surprised that it is still up. Beginning to look like a warez site!

#18 Posted by kanan on 03 Feb 2003 - 07:09: Beyond all of that. Have you ever made the mistake of trying to register on of these Microsoft Plus tthings! I call them Plus Demographics. They ask about 10 queestions about you personally number of employyees age etc. What that has to do with registering a program is sus[pect and it won't let you download updates in some instances altho MS says registration is not mandatory.l For the hell of it I've taken to installinga nd uninstalling a couple of these things a few times but always on the same computer so as to really screw up the demographics. I put the age around 93. Get my drift. If enough people were to do the same thing, I wonder what would happen. I wonder whether we'd get pop unders for AARP. or burial insurrance or rest homes. I'm not advocating this mind you but I just wonder!

(1 reply) #19 Posted by westcoastguy on 03 Feb 2003 - 07:18: sorry delete that previous post , roommate foolish error

#20 Posted by Germano on 03 Feb 2003 - 07:27: It worked.

(2 replies) #21 Posted by Rambo2000 on 03 Feb 2003 - 08:59: God bless the hackers for teaching Microsoft a lesson , now the question is, will Microsoft learn from this?, very unlikely, thats like telling the RIAA to give up there fight with these peer networks lol.

#22 Posted by cosminserban on 01 Apr 2003 - 11:55: From where can we get the crack for Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition? Please reply: cosminserban@hotmail.com

#23 Posted by Piranha on 01 Apr 2003 - 14:07: can't get the registry crack to work, I've uninstalled DME, installed the registry entry, then reinstalled DME, restarted and then tried to activate but it still says my code is wrong. I've tried 4 different codes, and they are the only ones I could find anywhere. Anyone know of a keygen?? Oh well, if anyone can help, thanks in advance. If not, M$ can go shove their activation.

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