[P1] OT: Software Licensing

[Jack Rodgers]

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 11:34  PM, Deborah Ramos wrote:

> I think you're all missing the obvious analogy - the iTunes Music 
> Store. If I buy a song, I can burn it to a CD, listen to it on my 
> iPod, and/or put it on a couple of different computers. I don't 
> technically "own" the song - the rights to the song still belongs to 
> the musician/group - but I've bought the rights to listen to it 
> where/when/how I want to.

Not quite. Only on those devices that the music store licenses. You 
cannot legally use the songs on other computers or give away copies. 
The key word is legally since some programmers are dedicated to 
violating those agreements.

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