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When I pirate, it's sometimes based on convenience or quality (where else can I download DRM-free blu-ray quality movies? Or a band's discography lossless?), bu
by mort96 3y ago
When I pirate, it's sometimes based on convenience or quality (where else can I download DRM-free blu-ray quality movies? Or a band's discography lossless?), but other times, it's certainly about money. For example, I don't use FL studio anywhere near enough to warrant paying for it (I have literally just opened it a couple of times to play with it), but paying for a license would have been less work than pirating it. Same with Windows; I pretty much never use it, the last time I booted into it must be around a year ago, so I'm not gonna pay $250 for it. I like to have it on my PC however for the occasional situation where I need it to play some game which doesn't work in Proton with friends, so I pirated it, even though buying a license key would've been more convenient than dealing with cracking tools.
- mock-possum 3y ago$250 for Windows?? You’re off by an order of magnitude, just buy it from a reseller: g2a.com/search?query=Windows I’ve never had a problem with that site.
- eek2121 3y agoYou don’t even need to buy a license. Alternate activation servers exist.
- mort96 3y agoWhich is certainly a form of piracy.
- saintfire 3y agoIt used to be the case that they were all keys that aren't technically allowed to be resold per their agreement. Either OEM or business copies and the like. So really we're back to some form of piracy because Windows is too expensive.
- mort96 3y agoYou say that used to be the case; has that changed? How does it work now?
- mort96 3y agoI went to Microsoft's store and found the entry for Windows Pro. It's the actual price. Other comments have pointed out why G2A is also more or less piracy except you pay someone for an illegitimate key instead of using a cracking tool to generate one.