At 4:54 PM -0500 12/09/2005, Krow Magnum wrote:
It probably is one of the most broken laws but don't connect eBay with legality. eBay lets lots of things go on that are not legal.
eBay is like a common carrier. The provide a venue, not legal responsibility for the goods sold[*]. It is simply impossible to police every auction, given the fees they charge. Protecting that open venue status is why eBay doesn't try to peruse auctions on their own, for legal violations. Same reason your phone company can't be held liable because you used their lines to plan a crime...
[*] There are exceptions to this. eg: In Germany it's illegal to sell certain WWII-related goods (trying to pre-avoid spam filter here), authentic or replica or new. And if eBay lets anyone, they can be held liable. Likewise with various state weapons laws...
School and corporate sales regularly sell computers with the hard drives wiped clean and no install CD's which is why some have no OS installed. Technically I could buy one and install an OS from one of my CD's and if it is what came on the Mac I am not violating my single user license on my install CD because the Mac had a license when sold for that OS.
Right. Media vs License. Two totally separate entities.
But if I install Tiger on more than one Mac in my home with a single user license I am violating the user agreement.
Only company I ever saw handle all this correctly was Digital. You bought a license for each CPU then you separately bought the media. You could use the media on as many computers as you wanted - as long as they each had a license. By making them two separate purchasable items, it made us track things better.
I do it, and a lot of people do it but it is still violates the user agreement.
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