avast ye scurvy dogs! (Score 1)

I do a lot of residential computer repairs and there are a lot of people out there running pirated xp copies without even knowing it. There are a lot of backroom builders out there who find it quite a money saver to install the same winxp on a whole bunch of machines. These people paid good money for these boxes, and are totally unaware that they are doing anything wrong. I guess that "buyer beware" applies here, but a lot of these folks only know how to turn it on and email grandkids.The very concept of "pirated operating system" or even " software" is totally foreign to them. I think it sucks that these people are going to get screwed over twice because of greed. Microsoft wants to plunder these pensioners? Makes you wonder who the real pirates are...