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Originally Posted by binkman71
Elfwreck:
Apple has been getting away with this for years. If you ever read one of their software license agreements, they state how, when, where, etc. it is allowed for you to use the product.
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And calling it a "license" when it's actually a "sale" makes that contract void. And it's been ruled in court that, if they're not expecting to have it returned, it was sold, not licensed, regardless of the phrasing on the packaging.
"30 day free trial and then it stops working" has a license.
"Pay your $49.99 and you can use it forever (unless you do something we don't like, in which case we demand the right to remove it)" is a sale, and the parenthetical part has no legal force behind it.
Libraries license ebooks; they come with expiration dates. Fictionwise, Sony, Amazon, BoB sell ebooks... and they don't have the right to insist on one-reader-per-purchase.