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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 105 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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!

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do people still pirate Windows? You can download the iso directly from Microsoft's website and you don't need a registration key anymore.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They’re saying Windows will lock away some customization, but you don’t need a key to use it nowadays.

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