Sean Miller said the following on 17/02/08 10:02: > 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 > >
I don't think the issue is that you will get fined loads of money for copying a Windows CD. The point is that it is, at best, against the terms of the license, and at worse could be considered piracy. Therefore the act of making a copy of the CD for someone else is "wrong" whichever way you look at it, and is not something that should be promoted on this list. Chris Oattes. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
