Re: Annoying Regsitration Problem

In article <457499b7$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nathaniel L. Walker
says...

It's also not hard to copy the original CD for yourself and sell the
original on eBay, either.

Given the description of the items this sounds like the most likely
situation in this case.

Which then begs the question who is the legitimate license holder? It
strikes me that the ebay purchaser now has greater claim to the license
than the ebay seller. They purchased original items in good faith.

It is the seller that is now using a copy.

You should be able to establish with Borland/CodeGear whether or not the
items are in fact genuine originals and have them resolve the problem by
re-assigning that serial number etc to you. The seller is then going to
get a nasty shock if they ever have to reinstall from their illegal
copy.

This should be a cinch for any activation system designed to protect the
interests of legitimate license holders.

;)


So even if it "is" original that doesn't necessarily mean
it's a legal copy.

If it's original then it surely is legal - it's the copy that the ebay
vendor has retained that is illegal.

No?

--
Jolyon Smith
Say, do any of you guys know how to Madison?
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