confidential info on old harddrives.

Old software is the lifeblood of old computers. Until I get some sort of official cease and desist order I will generally put whatever I can find on any old system I put together for a person. The end user is welcome to delete etc. as their own conscience dictates. When I get an old system in, and the hard drive is full of "stuff", most of the time I back it up to a 640 MB network server partition, which gets dumped to CDR when it fills up. My goal there is to perserve unique software, and to harvest software serial numbers if needed. My opinion is that the "license" belongs to whoever squeals the loudest with a valid serial number. Just having the software on a hard drive makes my case weak, but if no one else makes a better claim, ie has a set of floppies for that serial number, then I think it is good enough.