Windows Media Player user license extensions

[Derek Fawcus]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 05:28:02PM +0100, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> 
> >Actually, you don't even have to do that, because I expect the onus is
> >on them to prove that you clicked, and simply pointing out that there
> >was a bypass should be enough to get you off.
> 
> I'd assume the onus to be on you to prove you have a right to use the
> software at all. Otherwise warez becomes legal.

Guilty 'til proven innocent?

> I can pick up a newspaper and walk out of WH Smith without paying; I
> have circumvented their ineffective "authorized newspaper purchase"
> system, but that doesn't make it legal.

By this theory,  I could be reading my newspaper at home,  and have to
face someone from the publisher coming around to confiscate it and
prosecute me unless I could prove I had purchased it.

DF