Hassam Nasir Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.
Dr3ams Here in Germany… …the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruling: A 2000 ruling confirmed that copyright cannot be used to prevent the resale of a used OEM (or otherwise) copy of software. The ruling established the "exhaustion principle" for copyright. This means that once a copy of the software is sold and its copyright is exhausted, it can be resold, even without the original hardware. Microsft is going to lose this case in the UK. Reply
LordVile So basically resold OEM keys are legal? Maybe if they didn’t charge £220 for the full version of windows and £120 for a half baked version, both of which they still mine data on AND serve ads on, more people would purchase it legitimately. Should be illegal for a product you pay for to feature baked in ads. If anything they should sell the current version as windows standard with ads for £50 and sell the Pro version for 120 with ads removed and the option to disable telemetry properly. Reply
Armbrust11 Dr3ams said: Here in Germany… Microsft is going to lose this case in the UK. Yeah Copyright prohibits making unauthorized copies. It does not prohibit original purchases from being sold when no longer needed. The license idea was always flimsy when software was a physical product (disc in a box). Now that everything is digital we need our rights reinforced. Additionally, there's an argument to be made that only source code and UI elements can be copyrighted. Compiled code or works from generative ai lack human authorship. Reply
USAFRet The problem is not so much me selling my no longer used OEM license. That is an easy 1 for 1 deal. Rather, it is some guy selling 1,000 of them for $10 each. How were these obtained? Reply
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