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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48806122

A license verification certificate expires and when it expires, Microsoft Office for Mac assumes it's unlicensed even if it has been fully paid for.

So, any idiot who paid for Office 2019 for Mac "perpetual" will lose access to it next month.

The same will happen with Office 2021 and Office 2024 in the future.

Pirates are unaffected, only who paid for the product gets punished

Good job ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

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[โ€“] magnue@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[โ€“] Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago

I hate how people getting scammed by near monopolistic monoliths casually being fraudulent in their advertisements is them being "idiots" rather than just victims who haven't spent their whole life navigating the myriad ways billionaires are researching to more elegantly fuck us. Why consumer protection is supposed to be a thing, why anti-trust is supposed to be a thing, and people are trapped between fascists and a "tactical vote" alternative that has done very little to stop the fascists from casually dismantling these protections.

Good job media for always individualizing the problem and blaming the victims.

[โ€“] poopkins@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's an appeal directly to the thriving community of intellectual property pirates here on Lemmy in order to make the post directly to the front page.

[โ€“] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Notice that neither of you have refuted the veracity of the headline claim.

[โ€“] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It can sometimes be annoying when news communities require posts to use an article's original headline, but it definitely makes sense at times.

[โ€“] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Like this time

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