..a question..

if it was a fake disc but with a genuine COA, would that be legit? After all it's the COA that's the important part, the media is irrelevant surely?

Incidentally I noticed during the Vista launch that our local PC-World (where in the world?) despite sensibly locking all the Vista boxes in a cabinet, had left the COAs face up and on display. I imagine that a few discreet mobile 'phone camera shots provided a wealth of Vista COA codes for the black market (although i can imagine that the end users were rather disappointed with the over-hyped o/s itself.)