Well then, can you install OS X on an external drive and carry that drive around to different machines?
if "no" then the concept of "stealing" falls dramatically apart. In truth, the concept of "stealing" intellectual property is fundamentally different from other forms of theft. Most people who "steal" IP weren't going to buy a license to "own" that IP for their own license-limited use, because they do not consider the IP to be worth its claimed value. I'm listening to some song right now that I do not value at all. it's in my itunes because the previous owner of this workstation didn't remove their personal music when they left. I would not be listening to "hello traveler" by Darker My Love if it someone hadn't violated the license agreement issued by whatever label it is that owns this music.
It's up to the licensor to decide what their product is worth in real terms. In SE Asia, you can buy Vista for 3 dollars from microsoft. That's what they believe the people who will buy their products are willing to pay in that market. They believe enough people are willing to pay more in other markets to charge more than 100x that price for the same exact bits and bytes. They do this with complete knowledge of what percentage of users will be unwilling to spend this much money, and will either forgo the experience of being a microsoft customer, or find other means of acquiring the desired product. (if desired is the correct word...)
Either way, MS has done their math and figured out how to get the most money out of their products. Apple has also done this. They know that a large percentage of Apple customers have more than one Mac, and that they will probably want to upgrade all of their Macs to the latest point release, but will only buy a single copy of OS X. That's who they are targeting with the single license price.
A smaller percentage of those people will buy the family pack and give apple a few more bucks.
A smaller percentage than that will just download the thing and not pay for it at all, with various justifications/reasons/excuses.
Apple knows and has known all of this. They've weighed it all out and determined that copy protection would cost them more money in (meaningful) implementation and lost income from paying customers than they would recoup. They've made a different determination with their "pro" applications. People still "steal" final cut pro, of course, but the math works out in Apple's favor for these products.
Some of you have made it sound like there is an obvious line in the sand where things one one side of the line are legal and on the other they are not. The fact is there are clauses in EULAs out there that violate state/federal regulations and state/federal constitutional protections. License holders often overreach, just to "be safe" and claim rights to things they are not entitled to claim. Many companies intentionally inflate EULAs to make them unreadable and ponderous. Every time you update a new version of itunes, Apple has another opportunity to insert a clause saying whatever they want. Do each and every one of you read the entire thing, consult a lawyer and THEN proceed to update from itunes 7.2.1 to 7.2.2? methinks not.
And yet to be truly responsible, that's exactly what you should be doing with every EULA, just to make sure that you're not doing something that Apple says you shouldn't be. (in previous posts referred to as "illegal", although that's a questionable term to use for something that isn't in codified law, but a company's "contract" with a user.)
If you aren't reading the entire EULA, how do you know that Apple isn't adding a section declaring that listening to iTMS songs on G3 computers is a violation of the EULA? You don't. Is that willful ignorance? If the EULA is in any way a binding legal document, then not reading it doesn't protect you from any crimes you may inadvertently commit through your neglect, right? Sort of like "not seeing" the new speed limit sign in the construction zone...you're not going to get out of a ticket that way.
In fact, there's nothing stopping Apple from claiming rights to your firstborn child as a condition of updating quicktime from 7.0.1 to 7.1.0. And yet, you wouldn't consider that claim valid, would you? What does this have to do with stealing software? Well, here's a slightly more plausible situation:
Installing OS X on non-Apple-branded hardware. Apple says it's not allowed.
But why? Because they say so in their EULA? Is Apple allowed to make that decision because it's their product? If so, can they restrict the use of OS X to only white males? Or maybe only German cars are allowed to be connected to an iPod?
You can say that the limits on this should be "reasonable" and that my suggestions were not reasonable. But reasonable is not a defined thing. It's subjective to your point of view. In law, it's subjective to the opinion of a jury or a judge or a panel of justices. It's an opinion.
If (when?) Apple and Microsoft change places, Apple's current policies would be quickly condemned as monopolistic. In the Mac world, Apple's grip on things is much tighter than MS's grip on the Windows world. The only difference between evil monopoly guilty of crimes and required to pay out billions in compensation and a cool company that thinks "different" is a matter of scale. And the balance isn't as lop-sided as it once was.
I'm going to post here the current EULA for iTunes. My post thus far has been overly long...and yet it will take a great deal longer to read this EULA. It will probably get removed by a mod, it's so long. Which helps prove my point to some degree.
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APPLE INC.
SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR iTUNES
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