Seems to me the servers crashed when some people posted greasemonkeyscripts to keep refreshing the product key page and half the world decided to use it at the same time. DDOS attack!
Paris because she would of known better than them and stuck to Linux
Might be a good idea to tell people not to click that 'proof of concept' link late at night as I think I just woke up my housemates by doing it! hahaha