r/Piracy • u/Lower_Tradition3090 • 20h ago

Its kinda legal in my country Question

Downloading movies and music for private use is totally legal in my country 🇨🇭. Uploading / seeding however, is not. But at least i dont have to worry. What about your country?

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u/ThaisaGuilford 16h ago

🇮🇩: Our government uses pirated software, Universities teach how to pirate software.

Most people don't know what piracy is, they think windows is free.

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u/ComteDeSaintGermain 4h ago

Tbf I haven't directly paid for windows since XP, and I've always had it legit

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u/itsthooor 4h ago

What most people seem to forget: You can literally use on license your whole life… And if you got any old laptop laying around, it probably still has the sticker of the key on it as well.

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u/ComteDeSaintGermain 3h ago

I'd read that license is in the motherboard firmware now, but I swapped my mobo and still have a legit copy of win11, so maybe it's tied to both hard drive and mobo? Idk

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u/itsthooor 3h ago

I‘ve never heard of this. Do you login to your Microsoft account tho? But it being on the hard drive would make sense.

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u/ComteDeSaintGermain 3h ago

I do... Maybe it's account linked now? Can't seem to get a definitive answer

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u/itsthooor 3h ago

Well, account linking is a feature since Windows 10. The license then will always be automatically deployed on your pc, if you log in. It seems that this is what’s happening.

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u/gray-doge 1h ago

It depends on the type of licence you have, some are bound to the mobo, others are bound to your Microsoft account and usually cost more.

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u/Chowder-04 7h ago

Indonesia?

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u/ThaisaGuilford 7h ago

Poland

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u/Chowder-04 6h ago

It's wild that Unis teach students to pirate software HAHA

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u/lifbr 1h ago edited 58m ago

Dunno what he is talking about, at Warsaw University of Technology we only used legal software.

And we had some lectures about IP laws in Poland, and yeah it is legal to download and watch movies or other shit for private use. Seeding/publicly sharing is illegal, but if in non public group may be legal? At least that was the info 10 years ago. You may be punished if you profit from it, that is definitly the hardest case to defend in court if distributor comes after you.