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There are no legitimate Windows licenses that only cost 10€. They may activate but successful activation does not imply that you are not breaching Microsofts li
by simfoo 8y ago
There are no legitimate Windows licenses that only cost 10€. They may activate but successful activation does not imply that you are not breaching Microsofts license agreement and they may decide to deactivate those licenses at any time
- dx034 8y agoWasn't the ban on resale of licenses declared illegal at least in some countries? In that case, second hand licenses would very well be legal, even if Microsoft doesn't like them.
- simfoo 8y agoI don't know, but I would be surprised if such a ruling applied to licenses that were never intended for the country they are resold in.
- Double_a_92 8y agoThose licenses are mostly from education institutions or from company MSDN subscription. I.e. from rogue IT admins that abuse their power.
- Ziomislaw 8y agoit is illegal in Poland
- rasz 8y agoIt is 100% legal in Poland and rest of EU. Oracle vs Usedsoft http://www.osborneclarke.com/insights/the-end-of-the-usedsoft-case-and-its-implications-for-used-software-licences/ http://www.osborneclarke.com/insights/the-end-of-the-usedsof...
- 5etho 8y agoyet on polish amazon (allegro) they do nothing :)
- mosselman 8y agoThis seems like ebay's problem. Why are they not shut down for this? If I came across some software on e-bay, I'd assume it was legit. I just checked ebay and it is full of windows keys. How am I, as a consumer, supposed to know that this is 'illegal'?
- mosselman 8y agoCommenting as a reaction would help more than just downvoting of course, because I am still not seeing how, as a consumer, I am supposed to know that those are illegal keys. Other platforms that facilitate fraud on this scale are always forced to take action, yet ebay gets away with it. I am wondering why that is.
- pizza234 8y agoThe same way you're supposed to know if a bike is stolen. If the given market is grey/shady and the price is excessively low, and you really want to know, you ask (for starters).
- NullPrefix 8y agoYou could apply the same low price is stolen goods argument during black Friday too.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoIf everyone got a "free" bike when you bought a computer then the people who didn't want to use their's and so bothered to sell it would probably sell it for $10 or so? You can get £20 books for 50p, because either the person has finished using the book, and there are lots of books; or because the person got the book free (as a gift generally) and didn't really want it; or because they bought a copy and got a second copy gifted, etc.
- mosselman 8y agoSoftware isn’t a bike. It might be a special deal Microsoft has with those vendors. Bikes have an intrinsic minimal cost, like materials and shipping, software keys don’t. The average consumer would probably regard windows as something that is free to begin with so seeing it for sale for $10 probably won’t strike them as strange, you get it “free” with your computer after all. Furthermore, this is not one vendor selling one ‘stolen’ item, it is many, selling many keys. This makes it seems like a legitimate channel for keys to the average consumer. It also makes eBay more responsible if you ask me. It seems to me as if they are making a profit from those sales. If they truly are illegal keys then they should probably do something about it. So why am I wrong here?