Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

Before you have to go grubbing about under a desk to retrieve your licence key again may I suggest you invest in a backup utility to allow you to create an image backup of the system at a point when it is working and further to create backups of your data at regular intervals.

After all, according to Microsoft, XP is on the way out, and there may come a point when you cannot activate your software after a reinstallation

But back to the article, you say:

"The revenue that is supposedly lost is pure illusion, since in many cases the users of copies either could not or would not afford the official price".

I can't afford a Ferrari and there's no way I could purchase one at the official price. Your argument seems to say that should I go out and "obtain" one by a means that doesn't deprive an existing owner of their vehicle, then I should not be regarded as having comitted a crime as all I am doing is getting more Ferraris on the road and thereby pumping up the image of the company

Can't see the police wearing that one somehow.