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Just reiterating for the people who got "Already used" messages - from everything I can tell, there is no keygen that's picking off your keys at random. A bunch of people geographically close to each other who bought the game from the same chain of stores seem to have the same key. Sounds like someone in the supply chain is duplicating boxes, discs and keys to avoid paying Microsoft for originals, though that's just speculation, not proven. Another possibility for some people is that someone returned their copy and the store used their shrink wrap machine to make it look new again, while the original person kept their key.
Regardless, this seems really rare compared to the number of redeemed keys, and most people are having no problem with keys bought at retail.
Just goes to show, though, that when MS talks about software counterfeiting, there really is a problem out there.