While I’m sure @Yarrrr appreciates all the business, don’t expect pirating something to work as you want it to. There’s always a catch, plus you make yourself look stupid in the process.
Actually, there’s this one time that I’ve “accidently” turned a windows into a non-genuine version (system updating. I guess). And I’m forced to either buy the code. Or download the pirated version (fortunately, I’ve brought a new com after that for awhile due to viruses and stuffs.)
It’s still guilty, but still. It shouldn’t be something worth blocking.
I disagree, it most definitely should be when your version of Windows is no longer secure, and is more open to exploitation.
The solution for most would be to just repair or reinstall your OS.
Regardless, security reasons are pretty valid reason to block something.
That shouldn’t have happened to begin with, and is an abnormality that can’t and shouldn’t really be accounted for.
If one has a digital license, no product key has to be entered at all. You can just click through everything without actually having entered a product key.
If one has a product key, then that information should be kept, and not disposed of.
While it is true that a pirated version of windows are more open to exploitation, as l’ve “somewhat stated” not everyone knew that their windows are pirated. Which is rather. Sad.
It’s not really like “Buy me now or I’ll delete your system32” type of force. It’s more of a “Black screen of nothingness as a background and a little bit of text saying something fancy at the bottom right corner”
Again, I think that my old PC has a cracked version. Or not. It’s a long time ago.
Battleeye is actually pretty good. Yes it may not be able to detect everything, but yeah. Cracks probably have to be good or it will get detected by most software. Yet Battleeye manages to detect it where others can’t.