• MazonnaCara89@lemmy.mlOP
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        Using windows without a license is illegal.

        This is like saying you don’t need to have a driving license to drive a car because the car doesn’t complain about it.

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          Windows licensing doesn’t have enforcement. If there weren’t police plenty of people would drive without a license.

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          User posted in Piracy 30 minutes ago

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            Commenting on c/Piracy doesn’t exclude I pay for software, indeed I payed for 3 windows licenses two with the costs of my 2 laptop and one I payed my self in my custom built pc. (And I’m only counting windows 10 licenses because the count would be much higher if I counted windows xp,vista,7 and 8) and that was my only and one comment on every piracy related community.

            Edit: the same people force you to have a windows license and a driving license, but one get checked more than the other that’s it.

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            Illegal or not, most of the people out there never installed their os, because they buy a device with an os preinstalled and indirectly they buy the license for windows.

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      Debatable, considering all that’s stopping you from using it for free is a watermark and lack of personalization options.

      Plus, I’m using the Windows 10 Education key my college gave me, and my Windows 7 Home key from way back in the day would work too, as well as the Windows 8 key that came with my Surface Pro 3. The cost feels like a formality tbh.

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        It’s illegal to do soo, not that much debatable.

        Yes a formality that you pay every time you buy a pc with windows pleinstalled and it’s an asshole to refund.

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          While I agree with your general point, how is it illegal? If I download the ISO from windows, install and keep using it without activation? They aren’t blocking me from using it and I haven’t circumvented any prevention they have in place. What’s illegal here?

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            If they make it easy for you doesn’t mean it’s legal.

            It’s illegal to use windows without a license. As even stated in the license you agree before installing the os, this one, on section 5 Authorized Software and Activation.

            You are authorized to use this software only if you are properly licensed and the software has been properly activated with a genuine product key or by other authorized method