• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Back in the days of Dinosaurs and AOL CDs, you could just go to Best Buy and buy a CD with the Windows software and a key was printed on a scratch-off panel.

    You could even just buy a key electronically from some grey market websites.

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        What’s your point? Is it now somehow no longer physically possible to sell product keys in store due to some higher decree?

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            Why yes, our bodies, and our brains, are designed to be as dense as possible to be more efficient! This is why our brains’ gray matter has a lot of crevices so it can fold onto itself.

            You can prevent piracy using a stronger keygen algorithm and online activation.

            Valve sells product keys all the time, you don’t hear about them having a keygen problem. People just bypass the authentication altogether and simply torrent the software, which is something people still do with Windows 11.