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Put an illegible CAPTCHA on the support page:

Yes, spammers are so going to write bots to automate warranty checking, and this just has to be stopped.

In fact, it’s even worse than that. On the very next page, I have to type in the model and part number again, and solve another CAPTCHA.

Doesn’t really matter, I suppose. After the failure of the Maxtor OneTouch 4 I just bought a couple of months ago, it’s not like I was going to buy another Maxtor drive anyway.