Loool I am just received an email from our buddies over @ 3dWin: I discovered a problem with the product activation. Some honest customers, who had bought Windows XP, wanted to activate their product after installing on the PC. But the activation procedure by internet failed. So they contacted Microsoft by phone for activation. The surprise: the original copies are already activated several times up to 31x and more. The reason: many copies have the same serial!! The fact: different dealers are affected by it. Microsoft is informed, but has no idea, why the problem consists. Perhaps there consists an error in the production or something else... We (or perhaps Microsoft) will inform you, if there are more new news. Stay tuned! This news are confirmed by Heise Online To read the article in german, head over to 3dWin by using the above link! Update: Saw just this comment over @ NeoWin:I've heard they've already decided to allow 'unlimited' activations using one key. Only keys that have been grossly abused will be de-activated.
But this isn´t confirmed at the moment.