Making Copies of a Snow Leopard Family Pack

[insomniac321123]

Last year, my roommates and I got together and bought the snow leopard family pack for us all to upgrade with. We are now getting ready to move out and go to separate parts of the country. We would all like to have a restore disk.

My questions is, what is the legality of making a copy of the snow leopard family pack disk for each one of us?

 

[Consultant]

Family pack is for the people who LIVE together under one house.

Are you people really going to rip off $25?

 

[insomniac321123]

Take it easy, I'm not trying to rip anyone off. I just had no idea what to do. I guess we'll just have to buy new copies.

 

[Gregg2]

You probably have not been in compliance with the user agreement all along. Read the definition of "household". (Believe it or not, words mean things.) If I'm wrong, quote it and post it. You might not have been trying to rip Apple off, but you might be doing so without knowing. It's pretty clear that smashing a window and taking the product is illegal. It's not so clear that violating an agreement you didn't read is also illegal, until you read it...

 

[belvdr]

You probably have not been in compliance with the user agreement all along. Read the definition of "household". (Believe it or not, words mean things.) If I'm wrong, quote it and post it. You might not have been trying to rip Apple off, but you might be doing so without knowing. It's pretty clear that smashing a window and taking the product is illegal. It's not so clear that violating an agreement you didn't read is also illegal, until you read it...

Evidently, you didn't research and you should read the definition of "household".

From http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC574Z/A?n=osx&fnode=MTY1NDAzOA&mco=MTc0Njk4OTE&s=topSellers:

About the Family Pack

The Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that household. By “household” we mean a person or persons who share the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home, or condominium, including students who are primary residents of that household but reside at a separate on-campus location. This license does not extend to business or commercial users.

 

[insomniac321123]

Thanks belvdr, I was about to post that. It appears we were never in the wrong, we just cannot continue to use it now that we have moved out. Thanks for everyone's responses.

 

[Gregg2]

Evidently, you didn't research and you should read the definition of "household".

Thanks for the info. It's more lenient than I thought.

About the Family Pack

The Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that household. By “household” we mean a person or persons who share the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home, or condominium, including students who are primary residents of that household but reside at a separate on-campus location. This license does not extend to business or commercial users.

That seems to be referring to a student who is perhaps the offspring of parents in Alabama attending school in Wyoming. So, while the student is a member of the Alabama household, he/she does not have to live there while in school.

I note that they don't include a dorm in that list. Interesting, eh? In the OP's case, or even the student going out of state and sharing a multi-license with parents or siblings, the problem is obviously, who keeps the disc? With roommates moving on, that has value. The one who keeps it could pay the others such that when they buy their own, all have spent the same amount. ??

 

[insomniac321123]

One of my roommates just decided to pay us for our part of the disk and keep it himself. I will purchase a copy on my own today. Thanks for all the help.