• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    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!

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      5 months ago

      bunch of fuckin art pirates. crying about software piracy while they have their own bots pirating everyone’s art.

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        5 months ago

        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!”

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      5 months ago

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

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        5 months ago

        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.

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          5 months ago

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