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minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up106arrow-down1·5 months agoPirating Windows for your own personal, private use, which will never directly make you a single dollar: HIGHLY ILLEGAL Scraping your creative works so they can make billions by selling automated processes that compete against your work: Perfectly fine and normal!
minus-squareexperbia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 months agobunch of fuckin art pirates. crying about software piracy while they have their own bots pirating everyone’s art.
minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoIt’s not even piracy though. I never saw anyone torrent Windows_XP_Home_Cracked.iso and go “Hey guys, check out this operating system I made!”
minus-squareyesman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·5 months agoDo people still pirate Windows? You can download the iso directly from Microsoft’s website and you don’t need a registration key anymore.
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·5 months agoYou do need a registration key, but now it’s tied to the hardware so it activates as soon as you connect to the network, no need to actually type the registration key.
minus-squareBalder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoThey’re saying Windows will lock away some customization, but you don’t need a key to use it nowadays.
Pirating Windows for your own personal, private use, which will never directly make you a single dollar: HIGHLY ILLEGAL
Scraping your creative works so they can make billions by selling automated processes that compete against your work: Perfectly fine and normal!
bunch of fuckin art pirates. crying about software piracy while they have their own bots pirating everyone’s art.
It’s not even piracy though. I never saw anyone torrent Windows_XP_Home_Cracked.iso and go “Hey guys, check out this operating system I made!”
Do people still pirate Windows? You can download the iso directly from Microsoft’s website and you don’t need a registration key anymore.
You do need a registration key, but now it’s tied to the hardware so it activates as soon as you connect to the network, no need to actually type the registration key.
They’re saying Windows will lock away some customization, but you don’t need a key to use it nowadays.