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...before I trust my wallet to them.
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna to potentially not legally binding (cause it's not printed out on the box for you to read before you buy etc) The law in the United States is pretty settled on that question and EULAs are legally binding…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rot'nApple If the above quote is true, by my calculations, purchase of the $29.00 upgrade to SL vs the Family Pack upgrade will work just fine on my multiple Macs as well as knowledge that future OS releases to be inst…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Walter Slocombe As I pay my TV licence, If I record (digitally) a TV show on the BBC and retain it, as millions have done now for decades, that is LEAGAL. In the UK, you are allowed to retain a recording *only* long…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 Not true. True if the music is DRM'ed, not so otherwise. Whether there is DRM or not, and whether you can pass it on or not is not relevant. And when you purchase non-DRM tracks, Apple still makes yo…
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At issue in this case is the conflict between what the record label tells the artist they're getting and what the customer actually gets. Artists get more money when their music is licensed vs. when a copy is sold, according to their contract. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by shamino That's exactly what Apple was advertising. The only legal way to get music on an iPod at that time was to rip your own CDs, or download from a legal service (and there were legal services, even then - like eMu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Foo2 Of course, there is "fair use" for the few other commercial CDs in my possession. In the US, that's a valid point. But in the UK, for example, there is no such things as "fair use" for copying CDs. i.e., copyin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DavidW The law that Apple should be able to win on, against these Mac clones, is that no can profit from your copyrighted material without your permission (license). ... They can not use someone elses copyrighted…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Foo2 Enforceable is different from legal, which copyright infringement is not. , any assistance Open Tech provides for installing Mac OS X on a non-Apple computer amounts to copyright infringement. But once warned…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bokuwaomar Btw, Linux and other GPLed software have license agreements that restrict what you can do with them: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3761924232.html The GPL is a copyright license. It grants you right…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Physical property and intellectual property are both property. The fact that stealing music is easier to do and harder to catch do not make it any more legal than walking into BestBuy and snagging a CD. I …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Zaphodsplanet To those of you who think Psystar has a case what in the hell is wrong with your brains. They've been imprinted with some knowledge of copyright law. Quote: With the exception of Powermac.... Apple…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JoeDRC I think when you click "I Accept" When prompted with the terms and conditions of the license agreement you enter a legally binding contract. Well, that's what Apple's lawyers want you to think. Various co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ltcommander.data Psystar's argument is most likely flawed. I don't believe Apple really sells it's OS as a separate product like Microsoft, but rather as an upgrade to software that is included on Apple hardware when y…
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Quote: Originally Posted by a_greer Arrive at 5am, am in the store by 8:40, signed the agrement, swiped my card etc, and was done by 8:50, a simle upgrade, smooth enough...untill the guard caught me... The gaurd at the door, lets call him Brun…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider In less than five minutes, our receipts for the iPhones were printed (as well as emailed to the email addresses we provided). From there, it was on to the third and final line: waiting for a free Mac r…
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They're not hoping for a "tech ignorant judge." They're simply trying to drum up publicity. Given the number of sites that linked to them, I'd say it worked. Even if their legal theory were true, they'd fail at the first hurdle. They aren't …
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I suspect that Apple's charge for quicktime pro is more about the royalties that Apple has to pay, then trying to nickle and dime people. Most video codecs are patent protected. I suspect Apple has to pay someone a royalty for each copy that is …
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Quote: Originally posted by Merovingian I thought trademarking only applied to things like logos and not names like this. I mean, tiger is a word, it's in the dictionary. How can one trademark that??? Ummm. The same way Apple can trademark…