Re: Windows Activation

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From: kurttrail (dontemailme_at_anywhereintheknownuniverse.org)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:14:25 -0400

Dino wrote:

> kurttrail wrote:
>> Jeff wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I just did a full reinstall on my computer with windows
>>> xp home sp1 and when I try and activate it it tells me
>>> that I have exceeded the number of times I can Activate
>>> it. Its my cd key not cracked or stolen and I havent used
>>> it on another computer or loaned it to anyone else how do
>>> I activate it?
>>
>>
>> Doesn't copy-protection make life simpler?
>>
>
> Must be a growing trend.I had a copy which was on the shelf for about
> 6 months as the computer it had been on is now Linux.I built another
> computer and it would not activate over the net.I had to call and
> waste my time talking to a computer who always can't activate and
> transfers me to a rep to activate.I guess the 120 day thing is
> history.

Since MS does not spell out people's rights under PA in the EULA, MS can
change their Post-EULA PA policies any time they want to.

As long as people buy copy-protected products, the harder it's gonna get to
use those products. The only way to stop this copy-protection assault on
consumers by the corporate elite is not to buy any product that is
copy-protected ever again. 

-- 
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