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Legal OEM serial + less legal Win7 DVD = profit?
mgz:
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--- Quote from: kostya on December 10, 2009, 05:16:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: mgz on December 10, 2009, 03:04:32 AM ---Or in some cases there are businesses that will buy a single copy and use it as a multiuser license to increase profit it doesnt go well for those folks
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How many users were they using it for? Hundreds? Thousands? My old company had about 100 computers all using a single MS Visio and MS Project license (though it may have been a 10 user license or something). I would need to call it in every day or two. I once called in the same key 4 or 5 times in about an hour and that did not set off any flags.
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Microsoft has seemed to, traditionally, only worry about medium and large businesses attempting to get around the license. They seemed to have realized rather quickly that most of their profit from home OS and small business OS sales comes from the purchase of new computers... not individually packaged OSes; they then realized that attempting to investigate every somewhat fishy license key would cost way more than they would be protecting and said "fuck it" except on the big ones (e.g. a 1000+ employee company or something).
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yea the dont really waste time and money investigating unless its extreme, they do blacklist keys rather quick tho
Lupin:
The big companies will probably have VLKs so they won't have issues with activation.
They will also most likely install new versions of windows on identical machines making almost every activation identical (the only info I can think of that activation sends that is different between these machine will be the MAC addresses of NICs).
temuchin:
--- Quote from: Takeshi on December 09, 2009, 06:26:11 PM ---So I have this laptop: http://www.mitedb.dk/shop/acer-aspire-7540g-13926p.html
Now, of course there was a crap load of crap on it when I got it. An insane amount of software which made it slow, and which I would nether be using. Even after 4 restarts stuff continued to pop-up after restart. :-X
Now I've freshly re-installed Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, the version which was on the laptop when I got it. Although I used a "less legal" DVD for the install. Now can I use the OEM that I got with the laptop to activate it? I could also use my magic, but I would much rather do it the legal way.
The only way is to phone so that's why I'm asking first since it's, what, 10-15 minutes, and those minutes can be spent better if it can't be done anyway.
Also, does anyone know how many times I can use the OEM on the same computer? I don't plan on using it on other computers, but isn't it like 3 times it can be used or maybe I'm thinking about Office?
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you could have gotten rid of the bloatware by using PC Decrapifier
i gotta say though- i am seriously leary of downloading an operating system from some torrent or whatever. heck; for programs i get the trial version and pop in a code. 2 many places for modifications of the code to go unnoticed.
Xiong Chiamiov:
--- Quote from: temuchin on December 11, 2009, 06:03:49 PM ---i gotta say though- i am seriously leary of downloading an operating system from some torrent or whatever. heck; for programs i get the trial version and pop in a code. 2 many places for modifications of the code to go unnoticed.
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You're right to be leery of any sort of executables that you don't have good reason to trust. I download OSs all the time via bittorrent, but I'm not worried about it, because that's their official method of distribution. :)
Lupin:
--- Quote from: temuchin on December 11, 2009, 06:03:49 PM ---i gotta say though- i am seriously leary of downloading an operating system from some torrent or whatever. heck; for programs i get the trial version and pop in a code. 2 many places for modifications of the code to go unnoticed.
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if you have the SHA1 or MD5 hashes of the ISOs, you can check your installers for modifications
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