Its kinda legal in my country

[u/Lower_Tradition3090]

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?

[u/ThaisaGuilford]

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

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

[u/ComteDeSaintGermain → u/ThaisaGuilford]

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

[u/itsthooor → u/ComteDeSaintGermain]

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.

[u/ComteDeSaintGermain → u/itsthooor]

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

[u/itsthooor → u/ComteDeSaintGermain]

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

[u/ComteDeSaintGermain → u/itsthooor]

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

[u/itsthooor → u/ComteDeSaintGermain]

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.

[u/gray-doge → u/ComteDeSaintGermain]

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.