Is the CD Covered for damage?

wormvortex · 28 Feb 2007 at 20:54

Trifid said:
I would certainly be ****** off if I spent £330 on a key that got burned in a fire!

*reminders to keep copy of CD key in fire proof, water proof, wind proof anti burglar safe.

Ah but mine was only £70 :rolleyes:

Corasik · 28 Feb 2007 at 22:48

Energize said:
It's only illegal to make backups of audio cds and dvds, software is still allowed under the crra.

Actually faulty dvd drives can damage disks, and the cd can sometimes disintegrate in the drive at high speeds if there is a flaw on the cd. You also can't account for a fire, flood, tornado, theft etc etc.

1) Yeah, you can backup computer software, as long as you dont have to break any encryption to do it. So hacking out copy protection on a game so you back use the backup disk isnt allowed in the UK.

2) CD/DVD's that disintegrate at high speed are normally caused by manufacturing defects, as such MS should replace those disks FOC, or at least shipping cost only. If your DVD/CD Drive is faulty and scratches the disk, then it would be up to you to take it up with the drive maker for compensation. Fire/Flood etc as others said... more important things to worry about, like family members etc.. House contents insurance should over replacing everything else

PinkPig · 1 Mar 2007 at 01:17

Corasik said:
1) Yeah, you can backup computer software, as long as you dont have to break any encryption to do it. So hacking out copy protection on a game so you back use the backup disk isnt allowed in the UK.

2) CD/DVD's that disintegrate at high speed are normally caused by manufacturing defects, as such MS should replace those disks FOC, or at least shipping cost only. If your DVD/CD Drive is faulty and scratches the disk, then it would be up to you to take it up with the drive maker for compensation. Fire/Flood etc as others said... more important things to worry about, like family members etc.. House contents insurance should over replacing everything else

The only time when Microsoft should be liable or required to give you anything is if the disk is actually faulty. If it's damaged due to a bad drive, flood, natural disaster or lynching or anything of the sort then it's completely nothing to do with them! It would be ridiculous if anyone selling anything was liable if your house later burnt down - that's why you have insurance.

Dogoid · 1 Mar 2007 at 01:20

personally i would just download the image, you really paid for the license not the physical disc, so as long as you have the license key then you have broke no laws.

dog

Tute · 1 Mar 2007 at 01:23

Not being nasty but if my disk didn't work i'd be Bittorrenting another down.

No way am I paying Microsoft for another disk, no matter if it's my fault or not. In fact, if i'd have bought retail, there's no way they'd have got another £8 out of me for x64. That would have been downloaded too.

The way I see it, I pay for the licence. It's up to me how I get the program, as long as my key works. It's what I do for my XP machines - I have copies of XP Home and Retail. If they need a reinstall they get it off that disk, and I just read the serial off the COA on the side of the case.

OpenToSuggestions · 1 Mar 2007 at 01:24

if it was me i would download it from peer2peer (torrent) and then use your legit serial. As youve paid for it I would say in this case downloading is ok

Burnsy2023 · 1 Mar 2007 at 09:32

To stay legal, if you're downloading an image you must not upload any data, otherwise you are breaking the law.

Burnsy

OpenToSuggestions · 1 Mar 2007 at 19:24

burnsy2023 said:
To stay legal, if you're downloading an image you must not upload any data, otherwise you are breaking the law.

Burnsy

if everyone did that peer to peer would not exhist

but seriously just torrent the image

Meatball · 1 Mar 2007 at 20:15

I just download ISO images of disks of Windows disks. I used a very well known torrent site to obtain Media Center edition ISOs which worked a treat

I have ISOs of XP Pro, Media center, XP Home (From my personal disk) I never know when a friend might need their computer reformatting and they received no Windows disk :mad:

When I *Hopefully* receive my copy of Vista tomorrow I'm going to make an image of the disk after installation to be on the safe side

Corasik · 1 Mar 2007 at 20:18

PinkPig said:
The only time when Microsoft should be liable or required to give you anything is if the disk is actually faulty. If it's damaged due to a bad drive, flood, natural disaster or lynching or anything of the sort then it's completely nothing to do with them! It would be ridiculous if anyone selling anything was liable if your house later burnt down - that's why you have insurance.

Isnt that what I just said? why qoute and then just repeat the same thing?