said by Thordrune:The practice of embedding the license info in the BIOS has been around for a while, long before Windows 8. In general, it's slowly becoming more and more inconvenient for those of us that work on our own computers to do such things with OEM PCs.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS#SLIC
That will help decide on future purchases then, until they force even builds to be nonexistent any more. Heck, I can see it illegal in the future to tamper with hardware because you might be a "baddie" breaking copyright. Don't worry about DRM if that comes off.
