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Originally Posted by carlwaring
Indeed. That's the problem. Certain people just cannot accept that it is wrong and will find any "excuse" they can to justify it.
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Personally I'm not surprised because it is a very grey area... Most software is available from free downloads with only the activating licence being paid for.. that still doesn't mean that any site can take the install files and make it available for downloading. It would though be extremely rare for action to be taken and most OS install ISOs available on P2P/usenet are packaged with a dodgy key/activation program.
Also microsoft have removed most of them (if not all by now) of their public downloads for these ISO's to being behind subscription (MSDN) or licence checking servers (most microsoft digital dealers) which demonstrates how they perceive their own license in regarding to the install media.
Saying all that though doesn't make it wrong to download all ISOs and it does depend on the licensing.. It has though until recently been upto the individual as to where they get their install media with some people willing to go to social distribution (p2p/usenet) with only the recent closing of some file sharing/indexing sites which isn't though the reason for their closure but instead a side effect of the entertainment industries campaigning..
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Originally Posted by carlwaring
Actually, I think it does.
Again, I don't think you can transfer the licence from one machine to another.
But, as ever, happy to be proved wrong 
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Yep you are wrong.. The licence can be transferred from PC to PC as long as the original software was not deemed OEM.. Microsoft though does have hardware checks built into their activation programs purely as a protection to their software being used on more than one PC at the same time.. It can cause issues and fail the automated activation but if you push your case microsoft will activate it on another machine as long as you don't have it still on a previous PC and you can prove that you are the original purchaser..