Post subject: Re: Legal DigitalRiver Links (Windows/Office) Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 12:00 am
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I don't understand how this is legal. Doesn't MS specifically disallow unauthorized distribution of their software? How were these links obtained? Was it some free offer? Or was this a leaked link?
Post subject: Re: Legal DigitalRiver Links (Windows/Office) Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 12:28 am
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Just type "DigitalRiver links" in Google and you can find tons of those materials However, ISOs are legal from there, there no any serials or any other warez material just clean ISOs.
Post subject: Re: Legal DigitalRiver Links (Windows/Office) Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 2:34 am
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It IS legal. I found a link about it somewhere saying the links get given out on occasion by MS to customers who lost disks but provide still valid keys. Plus these are direct MS links. Digital river operates there store. Look it up.
Post subject: Re: Legal DigitalRiver Links (Windows/Office) Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 6:03 pm
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startmenuisgone wrote:
It IS legal. I found a link about it somewhere saying the links get given out on occasion by MS to customers who lost disks but provide still valid keys. Plus these are direct MS links. Digital river operates there store. Look it up.
This. You buy just the product key (an end-user license) from Microsoft, and how you get the software it's actually not important as long as your license is valid. I think Microsoft really doesn't care if the content from the Digital River store is publicly available, it has interest only in selling product keys.
Post subject: Re: Legal DigitalRiver Links (Windows/Office) Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 12:04 am
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As long as the mods here are okay with it, but it can be a grey area. Technically legal since there are no product keys included. The Windows 7 ISOs are great for reinstalling Windows on a new computer to get rid of the bloatware and they will take the OEM key just fine as long as you use the same version. Most OEMs no longer include recovery discs instead use recovery partitions which always seem to have the bloatware included so its useless.
Post subject: Re: Legal DigitalRiver Links (Windows/Office) Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 2:53 pm
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spunker88 wrote:
As long as the mods here are okay with it, but it can be a grey area. Technically legal since there are no product keys included. The Windows 7 ISOs are great for reinstalling Windows on a new computer to get rid of the bloatware and they will take the OEM key just fine as long as you use the same version. Most OEMs no longer include recovery discs instead use recovery partitions which always seem to have the bloatware included so its useless.
I dont quite understand why the mods wouldnt allow it, since software is only licensed and not sold by Microsoft, i dont see the harm in downloading trial ISOs
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