Microsoft takes legal action against comet.

Devrij said:
Hmm, as far as I understand it, Comet are simply charging customers to do something they might be to lazy/uninformed to do themselves. In which case they are providing a service, not selling discs?
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If i remember right, a few years back PC World etc would sell you the computer with no media and if you had any issues would have to pay £30-40 for the recovery/install disks.

I'm guessing they didnt have a license to resell these disks?

Dell, Acer etc charged as well but ~£10 (cost price??)
 
Glaucus said:
Bit of guessing, but presumably. They aren't supplying what was on the original computer and therefore it's not a back up its a new oem and as such they need to pay MS.

Where other companies supply with build, therefore it's the same license.

Tbh I would laugh if they do get done, rubbish companies who rip of customers.
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This.

The suit alleges that Comet produced the counterfeits in a factory in Hampshire and then sold them to customers from its retail outlets across the UK
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So they were mass producing them in a factory and didn;t pay a licence to MS. Tut tut.
 
Devrij said:
We do pc setup at Currys where we set up the OS, create the recovery media and install any software they like. I don't understand how this violates any IP rights, as we are just doing what the customer would do, but we are charging to do it for them?
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If you are paying for someone to create recovery discs for you from your licensed copy of Vista/XP then you are buying a service which would not affect the IP rights of MS. Comet were copying and selling software which is rather different.
 
I think if Comet had supplied a service and actually took a recovery disc from the computer they were selling the customer and charged £30 then that would be fine.

The fact they took one disc and then copied it 94,000 times and sold them for £30 each and never paid any money to MS or got their permission is where MS will win the case.

How much per pirated disc is the going rate nowadays?
 
Microsoft taking legal action? thats a first! usually the other way around with legal action taken against them! first for everything I guess lol.
 
sounds like Comet got mixed up with MS licence, they thought it would be no difference if they'd create disc from computer or making duplicate discs from 1 disc.
 
Martini1991 said:
I think I'm with Comet.
I can't see what's wrong? They've supplied an ISO on disc medium, or am I misunderstanding? (None "cracked" I assume)
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They a) don't have an OEM resellers deal with Microsoft, and b) it looks like they've copied a single disc 94,000 times.
 
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lol!

I had the unpleasure of sorting a laptop bought from comet which had 'become slow' what a joke it was, so much bloatware it was unreal. :(
 
AmTechFox said:
lol!

I had the unpleasure of sorting a laptop bought from comet which had 'become slow' what a joke it was, so much bloatware it was unreal. :(
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My girlfriends laptop was the same, some Sony Viao thing that she grabbed for cheap in some sale. It came with all manner of Sony crap on it, took 10 mins to properly boot.

So I just reformatted the damned thing. :D

Why they put all this extra rubbish on the machines when people probably don't even use or know about it is beyond me. Sony Viao update was the worst, it was supposed to keep everything on the laptop up to date, but instead tended to bluescreen when it was run. Useless.
 
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