Where can i download Vista Home Prem 64bit

Cmon, is there a place on microsofts website where i can download what i would find on the 64bit disk legaly?

if you buy it directly from microsoft yes you can direct download it from them.

I'm really not 100% Sure if downloading it from a torrent and using your legit CDkey is legal... Look into it, its worth a look.

microsoft charge a media fee last I looked, as you already have a license, why would it matter were you got the program from?

I got my copy of 64 from one of the torrent servers. it worked fine.

I have never got a virus buit into p2p software. but, some of the antipiracy measures I see built into honestly purchased software counts a virus in my book.

lately its been buy some software, it doesn't work, or I don't like dealing with constant disk swapping (whas the point of a laptop if you have to drag 10 disks with you), so then I download a crack, or in some cases the whole thing

P2P is also good for installing when the original media is damaged, or in a few cases, you don't have the correct drive. I also like listening to the old time radio shows, and they often come with the original adds intact so I imagine thats completly leagal (now I know all about a South Afican laundy detergant "Cold Water Omo", colored athricite "Blue Coal" and the latest all weather tire of 1938)
its a person thing and ileagal too, but I don't mid screwing companies who have screwed me before.

back to the original questions.

if the version of vista you bought allows both 32 and 64, (not all do anymore) it uses the same key for both.

you can install without a key, and register it later.

When I pay top dollar for a game, only to end up with a beta that is unplayable; that is THEFT! (customer suport is of no use either because they've usualy got hundreds if not thousands of other pissed off customers and they are swamped) when for example, an expansion for that game comes out that with the help of years of patches fixes (patches don't fix an unfinished plot though) some of the problems, I sleep fine at night stealing it. This example is NWN2.

Another big dollar Atari screw job was Witcher that wouldn't run on Vista 64 with my nViadia 7900gs without constant crashes. It wouldn't even start on my XP dual boot because I had a virtual drive installed, It said I needed to install the original disk because it just assumed I was running pirated software. A new ATI card eventual made it usable, but I could have got a free version of the game with that same ATI card if I had wanted.

I am not justifing stealing everything under the sun because I once bought an overhyped game.

If I could just return the games the DON'T WORK, I would; but customers don't have that option.

I've been burned so many times, I done buying new releases. but, that isn't always enough either. Civization3 gold editioin is the most recent failure function. maybe its just the XP vs. Vista thing, but it wouldn't even recognise that I had original disc in the drive. after a no-CD crack, something popped up about it being a trial download version. I'm in the process of setting up an older machine, so I'll try it then, but I have the fealing that once more I am screwed and without any recourse to honestly find any justice.