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> How can you have a legitimate copy of software without a license,

You can because someone bought a physical copy, and then exercised their rights under the first sale doctrine to resell the physical copy. (With sales on physical media being less common, it’s harder to get a legitimate copy of software without a license then it used to be.)



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