I remember one time a guy had a Windows XP key for sale on eBay. He took a picture of the thing to prove he really had it! LOL
lol looks like he printed those himself. I like "This is not a COA" part. I thought about selling oem stickers once and ipods I collected in person but I am afraid of some dude wearing air jordans and reeking of menthols and grape soda robing me and shooting me over them.
I have 33 ipod 5 touches unlocked and working and loaded with music and pictures but they have icloud enabled so they can't be reset without being locked out. i still use them and can dag and drop files onto them in windows and delete music. Hell I would even probably rob me. I live in the ghetto in a mostly black neighborhood and I am a frail looking old white dude that looks like a 60 year old mr rogers type neighbor
Does anyone really don't remember when the activation key was on this label, ie on COA sticker and since what times there is only the install key or Generic Key instead of activation key? Or is here all just so young, that can't remember anything, what was before Windows 10?
The "This is not a COA" refers to the part you should NOT stick onto the PC. Only the small, perforated rectangle is the actual COA. OEM COA keys were always restricted somewhat, for preventing folks going to stores and noting down/taking photos of the COA/machines sold there (to be used later). Usually, online activation of those keys is not possible and requires phoning MS. It cannot prevent piracy, but it slows down the process somewhat.
-These come in huge batches from china (more or less (il)legally) -Europe got flooded by these stickers. (Poland, UK and germany beeing the top sellers) Sometimes big sellers got taken to court in germany...and it got proven, it was all pirated/faked stuff...but it worked very well about 5-10 years ago. -These also often come from the Education sector and arent meant for the end user market. -These are often Volume Licenses and will fail to activate at some point. -These often need KVM services in your company to get activated. Out of a dozen...usually 2 get "de-activated" after some months. Then 1 out of 2 can be re-activated by phone...while the other one gets locked for a lifetime. eBay is filled with Office / Windows licenses for 10$ or less...same tactic, but you only recieve the key via email. Sometimes Microsoft "slows down" the sale of these keys, but no longer takes companies to court. Back then the refurbished market, for example, used hairdryers to remove the license stickers from broken laptops to resell just those stickers...which is totally legal though, in many places on planet earth.
I don't think M$ even cares, as long as they can get your personal data to sell to third parties. That's why it is still free for 7 users to upgrade to this new adware/spyware and key logger under the guise of an operating system called Windows 10