How about taking responsibility for your carelessness?
What if you had lost the Office CD as well as the case? Would you have felt justified in downloading a pirated copy and using a bogus key to activate it?
What if you had lost the expensive fancy $300 key to your expensive car? Would you have any choice but to go to the dealer and buy a new one? No. In that case, there is no pirated copy that you could substitute for your key.
But here, in this case, you feel that you have the right to use a pirated copy because of your carelessness
You are just rationalizing your carelessness as a justification for using a bootleg copy.
I don't agree at all with the currecnt penalties much less the proposed ones, but I don't believe that your justifications would hold much water in court.
I sympathise, but it's just a question of responsibilty on your part, and having to pay the price for not being so.
Your first mistake was not to create a backup copy of the Office CD, as well as the CD key, and keep them in a secure location. Your second error was to leave the Office CD and its case in a place where a young child would have access to it.
Would you leave the keys to your house and car on your outside front porch? Use a little common sense and keep important property in appropriate and secure locations. Perhaps if you had registered your Office program, you might be able to get a new CD key from Microsoft, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
If you are careless, you pay the penalty. This was just a case of stupidity. Sorry, but I have no sympathy for people who don't protect their property in a common sense manner.
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How about taking responsibility for your carelessness? What if you had lost the Office CD as well as the case? Would you have felt justified in downloading a pirated copy and using a bogus key to activate it? What if you had lost the expensive fancy $300 key to your expensive car? Would you have any choice but to go to the dealer and buy a new one? No. In that case, there is no pirated copy that you could substitute for your key. But here, in this case, you feel that you have the right to use a pirated copy because of your carelessness You are just rationalizing your carelessness as a justification for using a bootleg copy. I don't agree at all with the currecnt penalties much less the proposed ones, but I don't believe that your justifications would hold much water in court. I sympathise, but it's just a question of responsibilty on your part, and having to pay the price for not being so.
Your first mistake was not to create a backup copy of the Office CD, as well as the CD key, and keep them in a secure location. Your second error was to leave the Office CD and its case in a place where a young child would have access to it. Would you leave the keys to your house and car on your outside front porch? Use a little common sense and keep important property in appropriate and secure locations. Perhaps if you had registered your Office program, you might be able to get a new CD key from Microsoft, but I wouldn't hold my breath. If you are careless, you pay the penalty. This was just a case of stupidity. Sorry, but I have no sympathy for people who don't protect their property in a common sense manner.