Reply 20 of 50, by The Serpent Rider
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AFAIK you can buy OEM package and it's still would be legit without any limitations in most countries, even if old EULA could claim otherwise.
it's reasonable to expect Microsoft to litigate when MS products are being traded in a shifty grey market
That's a catch-22. They can pursue some legal actions, but it will open a whole new can of worms, which will most likely lead to unfavorable scenario for MS, regarding old obsolete products.
They somewhat famously won a court case few years back against a man providing Dell recovery disc's.
He wasn't providing keys or the COA, Jus t the CD's that would have only worked with a key on the side of a Dell PC.
Judging by this article, it can be considered as a scam. He was providing discs for a fee and went out of his way to copy the original look of Dell recovery disc, which is quite deceiving.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.