On 2/16/08, Eddie Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well what started out as a simple request has turned into a lot of > unpleasantness: > I don't know how to make it any more obvious I was seeking a *legal* > solution and hoped somebody here might have one. I've all ready agreed > that what you say may be correct in essence not necessarily the detail > but I really can't be bothered arguing it any more.
I really don't think Micro$oft is going to go to all the effort of suing somebody for re-installing an OEM machine using somebody else's CD (be that their physical CD or a burned image of it), I really don't... it would be incredibly pedantic to classify such a thing a piracy as the software is protected by licence keys and is useless without them... I would call copying the CD a "technical infringement of the licence terms", no more than that. Piracy would have to involve also sharing the key or distributing a hacked copy that doesn't require a key, something that has not happened here at all... whether a copy has been burned from one's own CD (legal, I believe, for backup purposes) or from somebody else's what is arrived at in the end is the same... an installation of Windows XP using a valid OEM licence on the machine for which that licence was supplied... Sean
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