{"id":40110,"date":"2009-11-11T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=123617"},"modified":"2009-11-11T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:30:26","slug":"chinese-pirates-are-making-a-pretty-penny-installing-hacked-win7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40110","title":{"rendered":"Chinese pirates are making a pretty penny installing hacked Win7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" title=\"fig_pirates_wt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fig_pirates_wt.jpg\" alt=\"fig_pirates_wt\" width=\"328\" height=\"144\" \/>Arr\u2026 Vendors in Beijing&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zhongguancun\">Zhongguancun market<\/a> are charging customers $7 to install Windows 7 onto any computer. The hilarious part? The copies of Windows are pirated.<\/p>\n<p>The service takes about 40 minutes and includes a full install as well as a quick crack. Win7 Family Edition costs $11.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t actually seen any Win7 cracks &#8211; it just never came up in my searches &#8211; but this points to the possibility that either Win7 is hard to install (which I don&#8217;t believe is the case) or that the cracks are quite complex right now, similar to the old tricks you had to play with XP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanzai.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=410&amp;Itemid=26\">via Shanzai<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vX2Vp8BEzSi2_wk-QvyuPmncvYA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vX2Vp8BEzSi2_wk-QvyuPmncvYA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vX2Vp8BEzSi2_wk-QvyuPmncvYA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vX2Vp8BEzSi2_wk-QvyuPmncvYA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=u4ZTTedtkjU:2YlBSSlQbXc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=u4ZTTedtkjU:2YlBSSlQbXc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=u4ZTTedtkjU:2YlBSSlQbXc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=u4ZTTedtkjU:2YlBSSlQbXc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=u4ZTTedtkjU:2YlBSSlQbXc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arr\u2026 Vendors in Beijing&#8217;s Zhongguancun market are charging customers $7 to install Windows 7 onto any computer. The hilarious part? The copies of Windows are pirated. The service takes about 40 minutes and includes a full install as well as a quick crack. Win7 Family Edition costs $11. I haven&#8217;t actually seen any Win7 cracks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}