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June 13, 2005 at 08:34 AM
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Have you bought a computer and got pirate software with it?

by tech_gal . Updated 20 years, 12 months ago

My stepmom asked me to help her buy a computer. So we went to this outlet store in town yesterday and got her a brand new inexpensive system. The computer isn’t bad at all.

The problem was not only it didn’t come with the xp recovery disk, but also didn’t come with original cds of the application softwares that were intalled in the computer. I was really surprised and shocked considering that this store is considered one of the biggest PC outlets. The computer came with 4 copied cds with no labels on it so I had to load to find out. I called their 1-800 number and explained what I got, but this guy gave me another number to call. I didn’t have a chance to call the number he gave me yet, but I will later. I just can’t believe that a big retailer outlet like this store would do unethical thing like pirating softwares and get away with it. What do you guys think?

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