Microsoft Refurbisher Anti Piracy (UK)

[rbsfou]

Small-time PC manufacturers should get together and take out a class action lawsuit against Microsoft.

Any one who has spent any decent amount of time installing windows knows how OEM licensing occurs, and will add the necessary files and manufacturers' product key, to provide the GENUINE OS the PC was originally sold with. Only n00bs use cracks.

Making people buy the same software twice is absolutely despicable. Genuine media? The sort you insist your OEM's do NOT ship to their customers?

[rhanda24635]

In short, this video is bullshit propaganda.

[rhanda24635]

The video also shows all of the people that are dishonestly selling PCs according to law, as smokers.

What does this have to do with anything?

They are discriminating agaisnt their "competition" with a smear campaign, because if you buy a refurbished PC (WITH a legal copy of Windows installed), you aren't giving MS any money, because the used PC is quite often not a retail product.

This MAR business is queezing money out of second hand goods - and scaring people away from honest businesses.

[rhanda24635]

I find this video incredibly insulting. I'm trying to start my own PC repair/servicing business and a side business of mine is to take old computers that would otherwise be thrown into landfill.

They come with Windows COAs. I install the legal Windows version, and my customers get a cheap PC (I also give away PCs to charity organisations).

I also sell refurbished PCs with Linux preinstalled.

A lot of my customers cant afford the more expensive machines, I sell the for ~40-50GBP each.

[chavez302]

Free yourselves with GNU/LINUX =)

[combiseries]

Also, resellers have to compete with pawn shops who re-sell computers without the proper licences. Software pirates who get their warez from `Chinese` counterfeit factories. Check out amazon for windows 7 ultimate, I mean come on, £65 for windows 7 ultimate. Microsoft rely on the community or the customer to report people like this on ebay or amazon. Then there is the whole windows 7 key fiasco. Taking down the small seller while the big stays on for years.

[combiseries]

The MAR and MRR program might be there to stop refurbishers or resellers re-using old COAs or using media other than that intended for a particular system but it doesn`t really help at all. If people want a cheap used system, they`ll buy it from cash generator or some such with xp installed on it from non-matching media and risk a media mis-match error. The software activates but does not pass WGA. This is the fault of Microsofts activation systems.

[SuperGangstaGeek]

This is soo stupid I have never had cracked software fail on me!!!

I have cracked everything. Poor innocent Microsoft pff!

They never ripped of anybody never! lmfao

[BlueFedoraITService]

@maxificationism The existing licence is voided as soon as the installation media is separated from the COA and the computer is sold. If the computer doesn't come with the disk or an image on the hard drive, then the licence is not valid. If you are the original owner of the computer and you lose your disk, there are many ways of legitimately replacing it for a small fee. This program allows the purchaser of a used system to replace the disk for a slightly larger fee.

[BlueFedoraITService]

Maxificationism has missed the point of this program.

This program allows system builders to install new, legitimate operating systems on used machines cheaper than buying an operating system off the shelf. It is not intended to stop resellers from selling used computers, assuming they still have the original installation media. It is intended to give resellers the ability to serve the customer with the best possible price for a completely legitimate system.

[TheDanLascu]

This means: be smart, use linux