Windows Media Player user license extensions

Ken Brown k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk
Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:30:11 +0100


Philip Rowlands 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.
> 
> 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.

If you find a newspaper left on a seat in the train, would you read it?

If you found a message printed on the page that said "by reading this
newspaper you agree to pay WH Smith's  35 pence" would you either stop
reading it or go round to the shop and pay up?


Ken Brown