In the middle of all the bad news about Windows Genuine Advantage, there are a great many stories about it working exactly as intended. Ed Bott has one, wherein a user who got a bogus copy of XP was able to get back on his feet after WGA warned him that his Windows installation wasn't genuine. (I should point out that the computer in question had a legit license key on the chassis; it's just that the copy of XP installed by the tech never used it.)
By the way, it doesn't surprise me that the rip-off in question was engineered by someone working for CompUSA, who are now shuttering half of their stores across the country. (David Pogue had nothing nice to say about them, either, and neither did most of the people who responded to his article.)
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