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Old July 3rd 14, 05:47 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default Activation problems

On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 22:28:06 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

I think _that_'s probably where the 120 days comes from: the idea was to
let you upgrade (or replace broken bits of) your computer, but if you
appeared to have replaced too much of it within a certain time, it
triggered a re-ac. Presumably you could replace a third of it in 40 days
or something like that, and allowing the whole computer in a third of
the year was a good compromise between allowing upgrades and stopping
piracy: the pirates were only going to be able to do at most 3 computers
a year.

But what do I know.


Piracy has always been MUCH easier than not.

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Char Jackson
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