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January 21, 2007 8:10 PM PST

Cori Hartje, director of Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative, holds up pirated copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 that she obtained for less than $10 apiece on the black market during a December trip to Sao Paolo, Brazil. The street vendor even warned that the copies might not work very long, since Microsoft was likely to invalidate the product keys used.

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