Legal DigitalRiver Links (Windows/Office)

Post by **maxtorix** » Sun May 13, 2012 11:33 pm

Post by **Patrick** » Mon May 14, 2012 12:00 am

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 by **maxtorix** » Mon May 14, 2012 12:28 am

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 by **startmenuisgone** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:34 am

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 by **Spider-Vice** » Mon May 14, 2012 5:39 pm

It's the server Microsoft uses in their store AFAIK. It's "legal".

Post by **bckf** » Mon May 14, 2012 6:03 pm

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 by **mahirh** » Mon May 14, 2012 7:00 pm

bckf wrote: 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.

Exactly, Microsoft doesn't sell their products to you, they license it to you via an agreement.

Post by **Smorgan** » Mon May 14, 2012 7:11 pm

This is completely legal guys its only not legal when you apply a Activation bypass to the software or a MAK key you found somewhere on the internet.

Post by **TheOtherGuy** » Wed May 16, 2012 4:01 am

A WWW search for msdnaa yields similar links.

Post by **DeFacto** » Wed May 16, 2012 1:45 pm

It's the same as if you downloaded a trial...

Post by **spunker88** » Fri May 18, 2012 12:04 am

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 by **mahirh** » Tue May 29, 2012 2:53 pm

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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