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I have to ask, why even bother paying some key site? It is violating the terms of the license agreement anyway, so why not just pirate?
by sekh60 1y ago
I have to ask, why even bother paying some key site? It is violating the terms of the license agreement anyway, so why not just pirate?
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoI guess if things get ugly they have some (terrible) plausible deniability? “What do you mean my $10 Windows Enterprise key is stolen? I thought that was the going rate. Linux is free”
- pyrolistical 1y agoWho is violating the terms? The seller or the buyer? If it’s the seller, would Microsoft go after the buyer?
- sekh60 1y agoBoth. Microsoft would probably never go after the buyer, but I just wondered the justification people buying from the grey market are - legally speaking in many places, you're just paying money to pirate it - it's not a valid license.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoIt's even more pointless now that I've just given up on Windows and use Linux.