Hi Shaun, The law is on the side of the parent company who holds the copyrights for the software. If you buy Windows Vista for $250 one day and your computer dies the next and you need a product key replacement and microsoft charges $215 for the new key that is their legal right. That is the actual prices quoted to me from Microsoft for Vista Home Premium. While that royally sucks the law is behind them, and we are just out of luck. We are fortunate in our small ag market that most developers, BSC, GMA, etc don't charge for product key replacements. That isn't true for the main stream markets where companies will charge you an arm and a leg for new keys.
shaun everiss wrote: > thats all and good as long as you are prepaired to offer keys or a sertain > number of keys per month etc free or have some scheme. > I do aggree with tom that I'd rather pirate than pay more than the product > cost just to get another licence, that really drives me away. > i personally don't know what I would do if this did happen. > Is there anything legal I can actually do if this does actually happen. > I've been happy to just not bother but with all the crack down on > torrentsites and the like as well as all the other things around I now wander > what a consumer can actually do if they come over this sort of thing. > I'm not against hardware activations or activations of any kind as long as > they work properly and don't change because of say a software driver update > or firmware update to hardware or software, or not work for an unknown reason > or cost a load of extra cash to replace. > This applies to all things really, oh and you can reply offlist if it starts > going a bit ot. > I would be interested to know what I could do. > I wander if I can buy a number of licences for things or get some ensurance > for the life of the actual os or for a sertain number of years and pay a > little extra up front, I'd probably be happy to do that. > I've been lucky and its fair to say most don't probably have or won't > probably have that issue. > I know on xp related things I can install the software on to as many systems > as I want with the same key as long as the system I have loaded is the only > system thats using the licence on at the current time as i have done this > with office a few times when my laptop was giving me hell and I had to get a > second one when repairs were done and then get another replaced. > Another thing i wander is what I do if I have a dead laptop, and I still have > the recovery cd with the product key and actual software or just the actual > key only I know these things can be linked to another oem serial of a laptop > but I now have a useless code for xp home which I can't activate which I have > tried. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
