[emodendroket]

It goes beyond a question of intellectual property to knowingly selling customers something other than what they believe they are buying. To take another example, you could argue, I think probably correctly, that there is no sensible reason to avoid eating genetically-modified foods. But I do not think it would be ethical or that it should be legal to put a label on your food that says "NO GMOS" when, in fact, you are using GMOs. The argument here seems to be the same -- it should be OK because the result was the same, if you bought the counterfeit disc and installed it, as if you got what you thought you were buying. I don't think that's correct.