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The old trick of buying an OEM copy of Windows (instead of paying full retail) when you were not an OEM building a computer to be sold to others was just as "illegal".


That wasn't "illegal" at all in jurisdictions that recognize the first-sale doctrine for licenses (e.g. the EU)


It violated the EULA.

I don't recall anyone, including well known retailers selling the OEM version of Windows to home users, caring about it.


It violated a legally void clause of the EULA. Do you have a source that the VM-related restrictions are equally void?




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