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its surprising how many organisations will let you register with 90210 
as the zip code... even if you pick Afghanistan as the country (first on 
the list)....

i make a practise of doing this to avoid stats being collected on me and 
my usage... i believe my copy of windows 98 might be registered in this 
way too.. (couldnt possibly confirm... actually i've forgotten!).... 
which i was glad of when i read about just quite how much MS is tracking 
their users, it has been suggested for DRM purposes... 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/3177.html

speaking of such things... while rooting around in my copy of win98 
(ick, yes, sorry... i have to use it for work!) i discovered a folder 
called 'DRM' in my c:\windows directory... anyone know what this does? i 
moved it to a 'safe' location... all the files inside were binaries 
including a registry key... i'm not much up on the evils of regedit so 
i'm a little stuck for finding it... but i'm curious to know what this 
does - would it be a part of windows registration? or the Media player.. 
which up until the recent fiasco i had a copy installed, i then decided 
to boycott it... i'm curious now, someone's obviously installed some 
kind of drm on my machine...

bw
miriam

Chris Lightfoot wrote:

> 
> Ah yes, I've discovered that now that I've dug out
> Microsoft Windows. I've just tried connecting to their
> `preview' service, which doesn't require a credit card and
> accepts `90210' as a zip code.


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