Surely this will prevent people from downloading pirated copies of said software.
To fight piracy, Microsoft tightens MSDN and TechNet terms again
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Re: To fight piracy, Microsoft tightens MSDN and TechNet terms again
#12Suddenly I'm happy that I did a big technet download spree a while back for a bunch of older software. This also reminds me to request the rest of my keys and download the XML dump of them.
Just to let you know, you'll have to request your keys over a number of days as there appears to be a limit to the number of keys you can claim within a 24 hour period.
Re: To fight piracy, Microsoft tightens MSDN and TechNet terms again
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
The page is working.
I don't know what GP said, but zdnet is down for me. And I've checked, so it's just me, not everyone, that it's down for. Weird.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.zd...
Clicking "Text Only" was required, for me.
I've been getting timeout messages in FF13.01 on the website since this afternoon.
"The connection has timed out
The server at www.zdnet.com is taking too long to respond.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection. If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."
Re: To fight piracy, Microsoft tightens MSDN and TechNet terms again
#14Ouch; they've really taken something fun and made it a pain in the neck to use. Getting a Technet or MSDN subscription used to be enjoyable since you just got freedom to test what you wanted when you wanted and on what machines (or VMs) you wanted. Now every time you activate you will have to think "Is this installation worth an activation?" Because what the article fails to mention is that each key has an activation…
With Windows 7 you can backup a clean installation (OS and drivers), no need to reactivate, just recover from a backup ... Same goes for a VM, just make a copy of the fresh installed VM.
So I should alter the way I use the software to work around limitations imposed by their DRM? How is that an acceptable solution?