What Do You Think of This Scenario?

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I was over at another person's house. A person who lives at the house was downloading a bunch of "free" music. There was likely malicious software in the files he downloaded (unless the malicious software was already in the operating system).

What I saw on the monitor was cmd.exe black boxes popping up on the desktop. I attempted to run System Restore to a point three weeks earlier in an attempt to clean up the Windows XP system registry.

While running System Restore the progress was frozen. After a few hours the computer was rebooted and now the computer will not boot to an operating system. The only way I see a fix on this computer is to do a fresh install of Windows XP. Unfortunately they have no operating system disc.

 

[lawson_jl]

They are shit out of luck and deserve to be. That's what happen when people steal stuff. Helping people doing illegal things is agaisnt the forum rules I believe. Maybe after they get a fresh install they will buy music from amazon or some other legal service.

 

[laznz1]

people like that deserve it sorry but stealing music is why the music industry is charging so much and why its crashing

 

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They are shit out of luck and deserve to be. That's what happen when people steal stuff. Helping people doing illegal things is agaisnt the forum rules I believe. Maybe after they get a fresh install they will buy music from amazon or some other legal service.

*Snickers* And the forum rules are now the ten commandments? Get real...

Anyway, if they don't have a disk, they are not licensing the disk to the user, they license the software on the disk. And of course, the software is managed by the serial number that is on the green sticker on the side of the computer's case. That's as much information as I am going to give you because this has been a raw subject here in the past and few people understand how software is licensed. Most seem to think that a backup copy is in violation of the license agreement, it is not, distributing the software(w/ serial) to more than one machine is a violation.

Windows aside, I think this sounds like a good Ubuntu fix.

people like that deserve it sorry but stealing music is why the music industry is charging so much and why its crashing

Record companies shot themselves in the foot when they couldn't a)organize their music b)stop overcharging. Both of those reasons spawned the old school Napster.

Guys, don't act like you haven't pirated something... Nobody is gonna judge here, shunning the use of alternative sources is not a status symbol.....yet.