What Is the Issue in the Psystar Case?
Linked by Nescio on Mon 9th Mar 2009 08:05 UTC
Apple Numerous irrelevant issues and feelings about them are ventilated in comments on the case. However, there are only two important issues. One is what the law is, the other is what we think the law should be.
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RE: Unfortunately...
by lemur2 on Mon 9th Mar 2009 12:04 UTC in reply to "Unfortunately..."
lemur2
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Unfortunately for normal people there is now difference between the physical support ( disk, CD, DVD ) they can buy and do whatever they want with it,
And the software which is merely licenced to their use(which they must agree before they can use it). The same thing goes for a Music CD or a DVD (you can still do what you want with the CD and DVD but not with the content of it, my god this is confusing).
There is no communication about this, because people don't want to be stripped of their sense of ownership,
imagine how people would react if they were told at the cash register that they do not own what they just bought for and only the medium.
Music/Film/Software company are in the same basket concerning this issue, So I guess Apple is not so guilty, just doing it the same thing as others (weird for a "think different" company).


Most people understand what they get, and what they don't get when they buy a book.

They are allowed to read it, as many times as they want, wherever they want, and lend it to friends. They can quote bits of it in discussion papers and essays. What they cannot do is copy it whole over and over and sell the copies for their own profit.

Why should a CD, a DVD or a Software Application on CD be considered any different to this?

What rights do or should software vendors have that book publishers do not have?

Edited 2009-03-09 12:05 UTC

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