Re: My pc mother board has died - Install xp oem

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Beck wrote:
Alias wrote:
Beck wrote:
CRaven wrote:
Carey - I think we should give up - they are clearly lost casues
whom condone piracy; I am sure that they would also consider it
legal to make copies of dvd's becasue they can buy blank disks!

What has piracy got to do with it?
This new policy does not affect anyone who has the old EULA as they
have not been given an opportunity to agree to it.



What new policy?

Microsofts new change of the EULA. According to them, a motherboard
constitutes a new pc. This change was made recently (website reports
go back to mid-february). MS sent out a memo to partners to inform
them of the change.
http://tinyurl.com/bxsqu

Carey is not being an arse about this, it seems it is true and it is
MS who are being the arse.

However as I said in previous posts (2 of them from yesterday have
not shown up for some reason) this will not affect those who have the
old EULA. It would never stand up in court as its not what they
agreed to when they installed the OS.
I only bought my XP this week and its not in my EULA so obviously I
purchased older stock good for me :-)

The bottom line is that it is sad that finally the 'Industries' get to make
the rules/laws(?) and try to force this on the bottom of the food chain(EU).
Trying to change the rules in the middle of all of the is outrageous. People
must start using common sence at the grass routes. If this practice had been
allowed to flourish years ago then there would never have been legal VCRs.
The 'Industries' claimed foul trying to prove it would bring them down which
never even came close. If and when the feds come a knockin' we will be in a
police state where ambiguity is the order of the day. This and all the other
threads about this subject prove the ineptness and failure of the giants to
get their collective heads out of their own asses and clear it up once and
for all. Since when should such a common product available to anyone create
the need for lawyers to interpret its use. Who will be arresting the poor
and ignorant and at what cost and to whom but everyone.

Are all these posters so smart yet so weak?





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