If he owns a vista license it's not warez no matter where he gets the actual installation media from. This has been argued OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN! ANY source but MS or an official distributer is illegal, even if it is only a OS disk! Thats like saying "I still have my keys from that Jaguar I wrecked, maybe I'll just go use his." It's people like you and attitudes like yours that is the reason the vLite and nLite are so close to being shut down... You pay for the license to use the software, not the media, otherwise you need to call warez any backup or mod to the program. Can't make comparison about real objects and software too. Downloading a music or movie is way different than stealing someones car or wallet. Using a program before the company made it available for the public is not ok though...