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Installing OS X updates on old eMac
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This seems highly unlikely. It's been a while since I read the EULA so perhaps it's in there. Do you know the specific section which states as much? I'll read it again to see but I don't recall it.
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I just read it and I see no restrictions on transferability (at least not for the retail copy) nor any restrictions on media type (i.e. nothing in there that says I cannot use CD media instead of DVD media).
As for your quote that refers to making it available over a network for use. While I'm sure Apply frowns on having their OS being made available over bittorent (because it can be used by someone who does not possess a license) merely having obtained it through bittorent (or any other means) doesn't make it piracy if the person obtaining it is properly licensed and abides by the terms.
Sorry ...
I didn't mean to bring up a forbidden topic. I'm not familiar with Bit Torrent. I will keep looking for legal CDs .
Thanks for all the help.
I didn't mean to bring up a forbidden topic. I'm not familiar with Bit Torrent. I will keep looking for legal CDs .
Thanks for all the help.
It still violates the license by making it available through a network. If you've obtained it via a network, you have a unlicensed version and there is no way of correcting that. You can't be properly licensed with a network gotten copy. The thing that makes it piracy is that you obtain it without paying for it.
If you note the software is licensed. My purchase of the retail copy of the software provided me with a license. Therefore I am licensed for the software regardless of the media or how I obtained it. Otherwise tools like Disk Maker X would violate the license.
How can the software be licensed when it was obtained through a network and the EULA expressly prohibits that. Your purchase of the physical media provided you with a license for one installation made with that disc, not more that one installation made with it or installations made with network obtained copies of the software. Obtaining it through a network violates it and any installations used with it. Disk imaging software falls under the backup exclusion clause within the EULA allowing one backup of the machine.
Wasn't the EULA upgraded in later digital download only versions (10.7 +)? Darn, your not a G5 anymore but a Pentium.
It's licensed because I paid for a license to use the software. How it was obtained and on what media is irrelevant. The fact I downloaded it from the Internet is irrelevant.
As for the disk imaging software it's not exempted under the backup clause as it's not intended to be used as a back. One typically uses Disk Image X to make a bootable USB drive for installation. And it is often times used to install OS X on multiple computers.
Media shifting is not a violation of the license. It's the same concept as ripping a CD to MP3 format.
Yes it was altered with later versions of Mac OS X. It gets updated with each new version that is released. Yes, I've out grown the PowerPC platform as a Muppet.
You paid for the license that is on the disc, not the network copy. In order to have a properly licensed network copy, you would have to purchase a site or volume license that would then be hosted on a NetBoot server for use only with your organization's machines. How it was obtained is very relevant because one is piracy as defined by the DCMA and copyright laws making it illegal, punishable by large fines and/or imprisonment. Disk Image X can also make backup copies, it uses that as the loophole to be able to operate the way it does. Even then, Apple doesn't go around taking every little app developer to court for such trivial things. They do however, send cease and desist letters to bittorrent hosting sites that enable people to illegally download their property. Changing the type of media that is used is not the same as ripping a CD. One is exempted and allowed in most countries, the other is illegal in most countries and protected by law. Still you cannot escape the hard fact that an illegally obtained network copy cannot ever be licensed as determined by the quoted sentence above. No matter what is purchased.
You appear to be unclear regarding the network prohibition. Regardless we're going to have to agree to disagree on this. My conscious is clear.
Disagree we may, but I'm happy to know I won't be taken to court for my doings in this matter as they are within Apple's and the law's requirements.
There's always the chance. Just like there's always the change arn's grandmother may get hit with a marshmallow tomorrow afternoon by a person in a green shirt named Sam.
