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0 pointsdathinab5y ago0 comments

No activation was not removed, a license is still required.

Is still a modified version being distributed but license activation was not circumvented.

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> No activation was not removed, a license is still required.

This was even explicitly stated in the linked article, but for some reason people keep asserting in this thread that it was a cracked version of windows.

Am I missing something, or are people just making big assumptions and not reading the article?

lucb1e5y ago

I can't legally give you something copyrighted even if you can't use it without a valid license code. It's still copyrighted.

But that's not what Microsoft is asserting here: the headline (which arguably conveys the main point) says it's about the anti-circumvention clauses of USA's DMCA law.

LorenPechtel5y ago

Yeah, because while distributing the basic .iso is illegal what are Microsoft's damages? They distribute it for free anyway, their losses are $0 from someone else distributing it.

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