Re: Valid Product Keys for Windows XP SP2 Professional Volume License Edition

Bruce Chambers wrote:
Nina DiBoy wrote:


Breaking the MS's EULA is not a crime, because the EULA is not a law. It's a license. This means that if someone does "agree" to the license and then does not follow it, it is a contract dispute between that party and MS. It is not a crime.


All of which is completely irrelevant to the discussion. It doesn't matter whether or not a EULA violation is a criminal offense; the individual so violating the EULA is still demonstrating an utter lack of integrity.

The same could be said of MS and their unconscionable EULA. They are also demonstrating a lack of integrity.



The logical course of action is for MS to take the individual to court in order to enforce their license. But MS doesn't.


This is true, but it'd be a public relations nightmare for Microsoft to actively go after individual users for such infractions. instead, they only go after the "big fish."

Well, then why make it the consumers' problem instead of taking the logical course of action? PR nightmare aside, it doesn't change the fact that MS is NOT taking the logical course of action here. And it should not be the consumers' problem that it would be a PR nightmare.



They instead put more and more buggy DRM and consumer limiting technologies into their products which treats the average consumer of their products like a criminal.

Because the "average consumer" either tolerates, condones, or actively participates in the unethical behavior of his/her peers that makes such copy protection measures necessary. If so very many people weren't dishonest in such matters, software manufacturers wouldn't feel the need to take such draconian measures to protect their intellectual property. Blame the liars and thieves, not the businesses trying to protect their own interests.



So you are saying that the average consumer (which makes up the vast majority of MS's customers in the non-commercial sector) is guilty of aiding and being an accessory? Nice. Bruce has the same attitude as MS does, that everyone's a criminal.
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