that indicates a certain confidence on management's part that -- they also needn't specifically target the sucker via some simple Billy-like (Win 3.11) ID-trap, either.

(Nice turn-of-phrase, btw.)

That 'inaction' alone demonstrates a certain amount of Class ... within this execrable, oft-sleazy industry, I wot. Oh and.. my experience to date is: nary a whiff of that urine smell associated with underground railway stations and that Other OS.

I see your point re. supporting the hardware and re the consequences were the pairing of the OS/hdwre broken via aggressive lawyerly shenanigans. (I too would feel some guilt running a legal copy against the Rules, elsewhere.) But as no business would be transacted, in what I'd deem "use as a toy" -- probably I could rationalize away my indiscretion, and if They came to repossess the offending gadget: surrender same with an Oh Well.