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iTunes Prohibits Terrorism
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."
That language probably came right from the EULA for Mac OS X.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Maddox already noted this 2 years earlier than the article in March of 2007: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
Violating dozens of federal and local laws was one thing, but I for one do not want to run afoul of Apple's EULA!
Does that mean playing Amy Winehouse at a party is off limits?
Isn't it a bit of a leap to use the word 'terrorism' as shorthand for "missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons"? Missiles aren't even necessarily weapons.
When did "weapons development by those the United States doesn't like" become the definition of terrorism?
Property is theft.
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
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Fact is they talk about using XGrid.
They're still running their non-standard FORTRAN with dependencies on compiled binaries from companies that went under for architectures that don't exist anymore except under emulation.
All those Mac users are running Terminal.
"There is nothing nice about Steve Jobs and nothing evil about Bill Gates." - Chuck Peddle
Terrorist #1: Hey, did you read the EULA for this thing?
Terrorist #2: No. Why?
Terrorist #1: All the more reason to bomb them into the Stone Age. Here we are, building a nuclear weapon, and those crazy Americans are sweating the LEGAL ramifications.
Terrorists around the world were heard saying: "Curses, foiled again..."
Best "String" Ever!
What I don't understand is this:
'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.'
Does that mean than all deveopment, design, manufacture and production of missiles, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons are prohibited by United States law? One certainly would think otherwise seing the seer number of missiles, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons that USA does indeed develop, design, manufacture and produce.
Anyway, fortunately the EULA does not explicitly forbid its use for the development, design, manufacture or production of conventional weapons, air bombs, mines, grenade-launchers, mortars and/or laser beams, plasma rays, antimatter doom day devices, et al.