From the official Virgin Digital Music Download Service licensing agreement (emphasis added):
PERMITTED USES
This License allows you to install and use the Virgin
Digital Software. The Virgin Digital software, and all other software made
available by Virgin Digital on or through the Service, are protected by
intellectual property laws and your use of them is governed by this Agreement as
well as any applicable end-user license agreements. You may not reverse engineer
it. You may not copy it. You can take an occasional screenshot if you want to
show family & friends, but that’s about it. Please don’t hack it. We worked
really hard on this thing. Okay, finally, we recently saw the following
disclaimer on a competitor’s usage agreement: THE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR
USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION
SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT
IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR
SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE. What does that mean? Who would use
music software to operate a nuclear facility? Did they put that disclaimer in
because at one point someone did in fact navigate an airplane by using their
music software? Is that even possible? I can’t imagine it is, but hey, if they
feel that it’s necessary to put that stuff in a software usage agreement, well
then so do we. Needless to say, when we think about it, we get pretty creeped
out.
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