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nivla on March 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Screw live chat, I'm calling customer service

I wonder the legality of this. Given most pirated softwares come with a patch that has to manually applied before/after installing. Wouldn't you remain in the grey area until you apply that patch?

mdszy on March 23, 2013 | [–]

That patch is only applied if you don't have a license key. You just torrent the software, use your license key and you're done.

hcarvalhoalves on March 25, 2013 | [–]

Making copies of the software is not a crime. Using the software without a valid license key is.

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