Guess What, You Don’t Own That Software You Bought

Posted by drakep on Friday September 10, 2010 @03:45PM
from the wired.com dept.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/first-sale-doctrine/http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/first-sale-doctrine/

Surprise, surprise. The courts are making silly decisions yet again. Expect movies, music, etc, to come with licenses granting you the right to listen, instead of ownership of a copy. Yay?

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Re:Guess What, You Don’t Own That Software You Bought by RiderOfGiraffes on Friday September 10, 2010 @03:47PM (#1679978)

Broken URL, and a duplicate anyway:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679906

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