A friend of mine in New York City had a computer built at a local computer store, and we found out later they used a pirated version of Windows XP. We found it out when I was there a year later upgrading his software and computer. We had to send Microsoft a lot of material about the company and in turn he got a legitimate copy for half price or so. It turned out that company had already closed--so I think at least Microsoft was following up on this stuff. Someone else had probably already turned them in and they were history.

SRS