Windows Media Player user license extensions

[Derek Fawcus]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 08:46:35PM +0100, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Derek Fawcus wrote:
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> There is no such thing as unlicensed use of software.

Rubbish.

The software I'm using to send this,  along with almost all of the
software on the machine I'm using has no concept of a 'licence for use'.
However most of it also comes with a licence to reproduce,  redistribute,
and make derivative works.

> You can't be innocently using it without a license, so yes, guilty
> until innocent.

Which makes the backup's of any commercial software for which I've lost
the original media completly worthless.  Mind you I've still got the
manuals for a couple of the packages,  but theoretically someone could
claim that I stole them!

DF