Little OT, need to know if this is illegal

[CaesarCaligula]

Ok here is the deal. I get MSDN through my school. Well ive been waiting to get .Net server to play around with, and it finally came a day or 2 ago, except one thing, the CD is broken (Damn you, UPS, DAMN YOU). Anyways, I wanted to know If it is illegal to ask someone here to give me an ISO of their MSDN CD. I have my own license which i can use, I just need the ISO.

Thanks
CaesarCaligula

 

[Kartman]

Why not simply have MS FedEx you another copy upon license verification?

 

[CaesarCaligula]

I was hoping to find someone who could give it to me tonight or tommorow. If I cant then thats what im ganna do.

 

[agnitrate]

It seems kind of shady to me. Maybe if you posted pics of your shattered CD people would be more sympathetic. Otherwise, you just come off sounding like another cheap person trying to get something for nothing.

I don't mean any offense if you truly have received a broken CD, but I have nothing else to base my decision upon. I don't think it would be illegal so long as you had a license for the CD. Getting somebody to believe you and actually send you the ISO w/o confirmation that you own the license however, that would be the most difficult part.

Sorry to hear about your situation.

-silver

 

[BreakApart]

Better idea.... show your broken disc to the IT people at your school perhaps they can get you another copy.

 

[Vadatajs]

Originally posted by: BreakApart
Better idea.... show your broken disc to the IT people at your school perhaps they can get you another copy.

That's the best thing to do.

I would say it's not illegal to get a copy of someone else's, because you have a valid license for it.

 

[jcmkk]

It would basically be like making a backup copy of your disk, except you can't use your disk to make a backup copy. As far as I know, it is legal to make 1 backup copy of your software.

 

[Strafe]

I would guess that it would be against the MSDN licensing agreement, you'll have to read it to be sure, however, a better solution would be to just download it from MSDN subscriber downloads, assuming it's been posted (and it usually is before they ship) and you have broadband.

 

[Strych9]

As long as you have a legally obtained license for the program it shouldn't really matter where you get the actual software.

 

[crisp82]

When you buy software, all you are buying in fact is a license to use it, it is not you're property. As long as you have a license to use the software, then it should not matter where you get the copy from, because you have already paid.

 

[Strafe]

I'm hearing a lot of opinions. The only one that counts is in the EULA, read it.

 

[RudeBoie]

Originally posted by: Strafe
I'm hearing a lot of opinions. The only one that counts is in the EULA, read it.

If only we had a CLiff's Notes to every EULA