At 08:37 4/14/2005, warpmedia, wrote: >That has to be the stupidest reasoning I heard. Never mind that drivers >change constantly, or that you could use another CD from the same model >(or image of to make a new disc). It just flat out violates the >principal of a free or low cost replacement media that I thought the >copyright law was supposed to be entitling us to now that we are mostly >prevented from making TITLE 17 archival backups by DMCA. > >Wonder how this logic works when faced with the HDD only copies of >windows that used to ship. Don't make you disks, no original media. Or >scratched, copy defeating original media. > >Can you copy or can't you copy, that is the question! > >You'd think they weren't making money hand over gorilla fist already. >They shouldn't be profiting from media replacement nor using such a lame >argument against using like media to generate a replacement for legit >license holders. So many artificial barriers with no real basis for >their existence short of branding everyone criminals before being proven >such, we must be in England something. =/
Naw, we live in Bill Gates' world. Everything he does is just fine, and everything users do is illegal. Of course, Micro$uck has broken just about every law on the books when it comes to ethical business practices. Can anyone remember a lawsuit that they didn't lose--or didn't settle out of court? That's why I call Gates the "world's richest software pirate". ;^) > > >Thane Sherrington wrote: >> I have a lot of people come in that need Windows reinstalled. Sometimes >> they have the Windows CD, sometimes the COA, rarely both. If they have >> the CD, I call MS and get a number generated for them. If they have the >> COA, I use my CD and their COA. I was talking to MS anti-piracy >> yesterday, and I asked if that was "legal." Guess what? It isn't. If >> you have the COA but no CD, you are not allowed to reinstall the >> software from another CD. You must call MS, order a new CD for $45 >> (that includes shipping) and wait 7 to 10 days. >> >> I tried to explain that a)if they had the COA and that meant they had a >> license to run the software, then why would they want to wait 7 to 10 >> days, and b)$45 was a lot of money for a CD with no license even >> including shipping. Heck, $10 would make MS money. The guy agreed that >> it did take a long time and that the price was high, but he pointed out, >> using another OEM CD might cause problems because: 1)the old Windows I >> was installing over might be customized (I told him I generally erased >> the drive) and 2)the OEM CD I had might not have all the drivers. I >> explained that I could download drivers, and he conceded I could do >> that, but triumphantly pointed out that I might not want to. At that >> point I gave up. >> >> T >> >> --- >> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus] >> >> > > Start Here to Find It Fast!� -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/
