this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2024
579 points (94.9% liked)

Technology

59551 readers
3479 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 104 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Pirating Windows for your own personal, private use, which will never directly make you a single dollar: HIGHLY ILLEGAL

Scraping your creative works so they can make billions by selling automated processes that compete against your work: Perfectly fine and normal!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

bunch of fuckin art pirates. crying about software piracy while they have their own bots pirating everyone's art.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It’s not even piracy though. I never saw anyone torrent Windows_XP_Home_Cracked.iso and go “Hey guys, check out this operating system I made!”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do people still pirate Windows? You can download the iso directly from Microsoft's website and you don't need a registration key anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You do need a registration key, but now it's tied to the hardware so it activates as soon as you connect to the network, no need to actually type the registration key.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They’re saying Windows will lock away some customization, but you don’t need a key to use it nowadays.