Patching Pirates > how many does it take?

how many does it take?

I have mixed feeling about all of this. I did have a pirated version at first. Then ended up buying a legit version of it. Of course at a great price of $9. Totally legit.

But the thing that can be done is put it on your machine activate it a week later put it on another machine call MS tell them you computer got friend and had to buy another one or something and you installed it there. Worked for me . Is it right? Nope. But I wasn't going to pay 140 bucks for another copy of it to put on a backup computer that I use once in a while when I screw up my main one and really need to get a project done.

I do also use linux as well. But there are just some apps that I can't find for linux that i need to use.

and back to the original topic somewhat. I think that all computers need to be protected. So a user that has a pirated version of XP is unable to update the computer and viruses worms and so on gets in there causing havoc across the networks that legit people are using. Is that right? Should the legit people have to pay for shitty internet service because some cheap jackass is using a illegal copy of xp and that copy is filling the networks full of unnecessary traffic.

There will always be people unwilling to pay for software. But the people that are willing to pay for it should not also have to deal with networks that are clogged and congested with traffic from worms viruses trojans and that sort coming from computers that are running illegal software and unable to update with patches.