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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by akvadrako on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:22PM (#28493215)
I don't know how you tell or care why a seller is legitimate, but it's very easy to find working windows 10 pro keys for a few dollars on http://www.allkeyshop.com/.
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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by anonymousab on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:35PM (#28493308)
> I don't know how you tell or care why a seller is legitimate

Because illegitimate keys can be banned (and the hardware using them can be blacklisted) if they are found to be stolen or acquired in some other way that Microsoft does not like.

It's also a huge liability of you're doing any professional work with unlicensed and/or potentially illegal software licenses.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by blibble on Saturday September 11, 2021 @08:08PM (#28497326)
you can turn off the regular key checking pretty easily...

> It's also a huge liability of you're doing any professional work with unlicensed and/or potentially illegal software licenses.

is it really? at worst it's copyright infringement

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by mikepurvis on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:43PM (#28493397)
I got one from G2A a while ago but I was not at all convinced it was legit.
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