Recently I picked up a grocery bag full of Windows 98 install CDs. These came in their original shrink wrap together with "getting started" booklets.

Also in the same bag came a bunch of booklets with COA product keys but without their CDs. Questions (probably fairly basic but I could not find definitive answers by googling or searching this forum):
1. Are those product keys stored on their accompanying CDs and do they basically get compared during install with they key you enter?
2. If the answer to the above is no, would it be legal to make multiple copies of one install CD and distribute those copies with the CD-less keys?



Thx