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Originally Posted by Burning Down
What's the difference between the illegal copies and the legitimate copies? Just curious.
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The copies themselves aren't legal or illegal. The legality is determined by compliance of the terms of use, which dictates that a copy must be activated with a legitimate key and under legitimate circumstances. Illegal use would be to bypass the need for activation by some third-party software, or simply never activating the copy to begin with.
Although, Microsoft's answer to un-activated copies is simply to make the background a black screen saying that the copy of Windows is not genuine, and disallowing any Windows updates.
Beyond that, you'll just have to put up with nag screens, but for the most part, the operating system is still fully functional.