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(IANAL) If your medium is destroyed you still have a licence, but you do not have a medium in which to exercise that licence. You therefore need to buy a new me

(IANAL) If your medium is destroyed you still have a licence, but you do not have a medium in which to exercise that licence. You therefore need to buy a new medium. You are prohibited from making a copy of the medium as that would allow you to distribute it which is braking the terms of your licence.

ekianjo 14y ago
Then why can't the company owning the license provide you a replacement disk/medium at a reduced fee (manufacturing cost only) since you still own the licence, technically speaking ?
- rprasad 14y ago
  They can, and many do so if you can prove ownership of the license. Many companies choose not to issue cheap replacements because it is not profitable to do so.
- wmf 14y ago
  Because they don't want to, obviously. The only exception that I know of is UltraViolet.