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Posted June 21, 2020
I keep seeing them everywhere?!

A couple of years ago i watched a video explaining how those keys where either coming from extortion setups or whole deal company buyers going bankrupt but..... wouldn't that mean that the supply should have dried up by now? Or are the extortion deals still going on without windows noticing anything? I can belief a lot of bankruptcy going on at the moment but still, it feels like at any given time you have acces to at least 5000 different key sellers with who knows a big supply on their hands?
Posted June 21, 2020
It's pretty simple Microsoft has many initiative and programs to propagate it's software, one of it it's MSDNAA. Most University, belong to this program(especially with courses around IT). MSDNAA allows all students, faculty, and staff of the computer science department to use various Microsoft software products and online resources for academic and non-profit research purposes. They use the same key to activate software (one key for partner) for all beneficent. So they sell on website access to this key illegally, and this key don't have any activation limit. Basically activated this key software is illegal if you are not student, faculty or staff.

<I'm not lawyer, so I can make mistake here...>
I think you can try defend yourself successfully only in situation that you bought this keys on website and get invoice, and activated system. In that situation responsibility will be shifted to seller, but most websites don't give you invoice (for that reason).
</I'm not lawyer, so I can make mistake here...>

PS.

I think M$ should change it's politics and provide it's software as service (if they provide software in reasonable price home users will stops use illegal software).
Posted June 21, 2020
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xernos: It's pretty simple Microsoft has many initiative and programs to propagate it's software, one of it it's MSDNAA. Most University, belong to this program(especially with courses around IT). MSDNAA allows all students, faculty, and staff of the computer science department to use various Microsoft software products and online resources for academic and non-profit research purposes. They use the same key to activate software (one key for partner) for all beneficent. So they sell on website access to this key illegally, and this key don't have any activation limit. Basically activated this key software is illegal if you are not student, faculty or staff.

<I'm not lawyer, so I can make mistake here...>
I think you can try defend yourself successfully only in situation that you bought this keys on website and get invoice, and activated system. In that situation responsibility will be shifted to seller, but most websites don't give you invoice (for that reason).
</I'm not lawyer, so I can make mistake here...>

PS.

I think M$ should change it's politics and provide it's software as service (if they provide software in reasonable price home users will stops use illegal software).
Oke, well that is good to know, the oem versions of windows are pretty affordable too and certainly worth it i presume and especially if you bought smart only expecting gpu and cpu changes over the years
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