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Legal OEM serial + less legal Win7 DVD = profit?

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Proin Drakenzol:
the disk is free. you only pay for the key.

zherok:

--- Quote from: Takeshi on December 09, 2009, 09:04:20 PM ---I was thinking if there was a difference between serials which comes with the laptop and editions you buy separately.

Anyway, thanks for clearing this up.

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OEM serials are different from stand-alone serials. But for the purposes of authentication it doesn't really matter.

I had to resintall Vista on my laptop after it biffed upgrading to 7. I didn't have a recovery disc, so I had to bootleg a copy. I have an OEM serial, but it wouldn't take it during the install. Which is fine, you just authenticate it after it finished within 30 days or whatever. But the non-OEM disc wouldn't take an OEM serial.

I know XP differentiated between the two as well, so I assume the same is true for 7.

mgz:

--- Quote from: blubart on December 09, 2009, 07:30:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: Takeshi on December 09, 2009, 06:26:11 PM ---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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if i remember right there is no limit if you are using the phone. a buddy of mine is basically friends with the tech guys there, judging from the number of times he already called them (and has his serial memorized too) :P

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yea if you are calling and activating and lying to them it doesnt matter until they see like 50 activations on one cdkey in a very short period in which it becomes blacklisted for being one of the publicly released internet ones.

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

kostya:

--- 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.

Proin Drakenzol:

--- 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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