At 2:43 PM -0500 5/11/09, joe wrote: >On May 11, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Dan wrote: > > Let's be clear here. Apple's licensing is VERY specific. >> <http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/> > >Some years ago, I bought Jaguar install disks via e-bay. As it turns >out, they were home-made copies with paper labels on them. I >complained to the seller first, who said he thought they were >legitimate since he didn't make them himself, but bought 100 sets of >them from someone else. I complained to e-bay and Apple. Neither >one responded to any of my e-mails, and the guy was still selling >software on e-bay at least a year later.
For the most part, Apple doesn't seem to be into the whole RIAA/MPAA-style customer hatred power trip. eg: They seem to ignore the small guys, who do the gray market stuff such as selling pulled media on venues like eBay and LEM Swap. But the anti-piracy climate of today is a far cry from yesterday's. Betcha if they were shown someone like that today, producing 100+ copies of the shipping OS, they'd nail 'em. >So. . . Apple doesn't seem at all interested in protecting their >license. (Oh yeah, this was when Jaguar was still being sold in the >stores, I should have mentioned.) After all, they let such a >flagrant violator (not even an anonymous pirate, but an e-bay seller) >get away with it. Slippery slope. Just because the cop lets that other guy go speeding by is NOT justification for you to speed. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
