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• Vegan_Joe@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If I understand it correctly, Microsoft sells discounted keys to organizations as part of their Volume Licensing for businesses.

  Some places on the internet take advantage of that, and sell the keys individually.

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  • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh thank you

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  • Tanoh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    More likely it is a key purchased with a stolen credit card. Do not use gray markets

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    • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Highly unlikely. The grey market keys are clearly for large companies. You couldn’t purchase thousands of keys with a stolen credit card.

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      • Tanoh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Take this blog post from Factorio a few years ago, they much rather you pirate the game than use gray markets. (Second header)

        www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-171

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