In Forum: Tutorials and Guides
By User: billkarageorge666
The Windows 7 ISO images hosted on Digital River is genuine and official version, and the downloads from the server is legal. Itâs after all one of the official channel where end-users who purchase a license (product key) for Windows 7 get the setup installation files.
I forgot MDL was a forum for lawyers.
Oh wait, they're not. They're a bunch of ill-informed idiots.
Actually, under UK law, this would actually constitute a serious crime - unauthorised access of a computer system under the Computer Misuse Act of 1990 - whereas typical copyright infringement would not. This is because UK law, like many others from what I understand, does not consider lack of protection to be consent to access. Just because you can do something, does not make it legal, and just because others do the same thing, with the permission of Digital River through purchasing a license, does not make it legal for you to do so.
From this technet thread:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... 53f2578423
I understand that it is not perfectly legal after all.
By User: billkarageorge666
The Windows 7 ISO images hosted on Digital River is genuine and official version, and the downloads from the server is legal. Itâs after all one of the official channel where end-users who purchase a license (product key) for Windows 7 get the setup installation files.
I forgot MDL was a forum for lawyers.
Oh wait, they're not. They're a bunch of ill-informed idiots.
Actually, under UK law, this would actually constitute a serious crime - unauthorised access of a computer system under the Computer Misuse Act of 1990 - whereas typical copyright infringement would not. This is because UK law, like many others from what I understand, does not consider lack of protection to be consent to access. Just because you can do something, does not make it legal, and just because others do the same thing, with the permission of Digital River through purchasing a license, does not make it legal for you to do so.
From this technet thread:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... 53f2578423
I understand that it is not perfectly legal after all.