If Microsoft wanted to put a stop to this then they should go get the big sellers instead of the small fry who try to make a legal living. There are wholesale companies that sell these OEM codes to the biggest game key sellers on the internet like Kinguin, G2A and Gamvio. OEM codes no longer have to be sold along with the `broken` hardware that they come with. It is those that break policies that Microsoft has in place. MSDN codes, VOL and VLK, CSVLK licenses are the ones to watch out for. All the big game key sites do so, as well as hundreds of big German retailers like `Lizengo`. Usedsoft is still a thriving company dealing in `used` licenses and there are many, many, many multimillion pound marketplaces dealing in such licenses. This was passed as law by European law as shown here :

You wrongly state that OEM licenses are illegal… They are not. You may also like: What are Junk Files and How to Clean Out them in Windows 10.

In reality, however, they are often part of time-limited licenses for trial versions or software developers, volume licenses for educational institutions or OEM licenses and are illegally distributed – usually without the knowledge of the actual licensees. The manipulated keys are usually offered over the Internet as real software licenses. They do not have to produce and import counterfeit data carriers and thus exclude the risk of border seizure by customs.Įven in the case of a scan, no fake volumes are found, but at worst lists of product keys. For the traders, this type of distribution appears to be particularly lucrative.

Microsoft is serious – a German student has to pay 139.000 EurosĪ new form of software piracy has emerged very fast: the sale of individual product keys as “real” licenses for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.

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