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iTunes Prohibits Terrorism

Posted by samzenpus on from the great-songs-come-with-great-responsibility dept.

Afforess writes "A recent closer look at the oft-skimmed EULA agreement for iTunes has an interesting paragraph in it, Gizmodo reports. 'You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.' Although humorous, some readers suggested that this may be a defense measure to previously discussed price changes in the iTunes music store."

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  1. Boilerplate. by jcr · · Score: 4, Informative

    That language probably came right from the EULA for Mac OS X.

    -jcr

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  2. Seriously? by AdmiralAudio · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maddox already noted this 2 years earlier than the article in March of 2007: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant

  3. Re:"Terrorism" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Did you miss the last 8 years?

  4. Re:Laughable. by jcr · · Score: 4, Informative

    The idea that you'd use OS X for something as serious as missile development / nuclear simulations is laughable.

    Laugh all you want, but there are a lot of Mac users at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos. They use Xgrid.

    -jcr

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  5. Cryptographic Export Control by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I would imagine it has something to do with the export regulations on strong cryptography, something they probably use in their DRM code.

  6. Re:Laughable. by fractoid · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm pretty sure you don't have to be running "Super Futuristic Movie OS" with a "Design Nucular Missile System" button in order to work on missile development. Any OS that can run a CAD program (I'm taking a wild guess here and saying that's "all of them") will do just fine.

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