I dont mean to encourage piracy but there's always a way around it. And for Mac user: windows is now on Mac so watch out viruses on windows will follow it into ur Mac and there will be more viruses since Mac is gettin more popular

 

whew.... i could care less really. My company will buy me an os if needed. I thought it was for tunes at first.

 

Whoop-dee-doo, you can't pirate a copy of Windows...

Everything else is still open for business though.

And pirating an OS is just a dumb idea in the first place. Using one license on two computers is understandable though.

P.S: Apple is considering shipping Windows Vista on new Intel Macs once it's released. That's how good it is.

 

you may think pirating an OS is dumb, but i think paying for one is. just my 2 cents

 

Well, I'll gladly pay $20 for XP Pro as opposed to $3,500 for 3ds max 8.

And they don't exactly give out copies of Tiger either from what I hear.

 

And drbyers, I know we continuously clash on the whole "Mac vs. Windows" deal, but calling them "PC's" isn't the proper nomenclature, as a Mac is almost every bit as personal as a Windows machine.

 

im willing to take my chances, like saying i'll get locked up for downloading a song illegally highly unlikely. though it would suck *** if i got locked up for d/l a song or even using a pirated OS. those harsh pirating laws are more of a preventive scare tactic IMHO. how many times have you heard of one average joe gettin put away for possesing pirated material

 

Oh, I totally agree with you. Generally it's just a slap on the wrist nowadays, since the amount of money they would invariably end up spending on a full prosecution would far exceed anything they made off it. Also, software piracy laws are still in such a grey area that there are plenty of loopholes and negotiations around them.

 

This is why I make work buy me everything. Just another perk to working with people who have no idea how or why a computer works...

 

I think that the only thing that is dumb are the prices for MS products. Of course your software will be pirated if you're charginh hndreds of dollars of it. The only reason MS prices their OS like that is because they control 95% of the market, hence people will buy it regardless of the cost.

Besides, going after every person that uses a pirated copy of windows is not only too costly to be beneficial, but is also impossible. I'm pretty certain that the most this little utility will do is "lock up" the OS. If that will be the case, then there will be cracks for that in a matter of weeks.