Ladies & gentlemen this is what happens when you adopt and allow an economy which considers data to be property. I thought that digital rights management & anti-piracy was about artists rights? I didn't hear anything about MS being a pseudo-police checking peoples' computers.
It's interesting. I wonder what would happen if a Microsoft/RIAA/Whatever person was at my door and said 'I want to see if you're running a pirated Windows XP or if you're playing Metallica via sound produced by an unlicenced bit of software'. Can I just say no? Of course I can say no. I don't have to let him in my house. The police/court have to let him in.
But do I have the same protection when downloading a video of Star Trek The Animated Series because I can't find it anywhere else? If I was living in America, I wouldn't even have the option of telling people how to get that protection.
There's a lot of unfinished laws and learning to be done by the industry and ISPs/Telcos, and joe bloggs alike. Remember boys & girls - this all started from deciding that computer data could be considered 'steal-able'. OS's, Music, Games, the lot.
Whichever argument it is, whether it be DRM, bittorrent, software piracy - it all comes down to that fundamental question. Is copying some data or using data in your own way (your own physical devices simply arranged in a specific configuration) considered a crime?
My answer to that question is No. It's not. Nobody dies. Data is not a unique object. Its not even classed as an object. It's information, folks. It's not real. ------------
I dunno you guys but I kinda always enjoyed the fact that I had the freedom to comit crimes, but I'm trusted not to. It's part of being a grown-up. Theres nothing stopping me from stealing cars or beating someone up, and thats been bad for centuries. There has always been a HUGE unmeasurable resource of knowledge out there on how humans are configured and repaired. Do you want to ban that information because it could be used to kill someone?
It is probably Accordo. This is common for those who use MS Select and MS Enterprise agreements and probably the open licencing agreement.
terms of the select and enterprise agreements give MS rights to audit you (can't comment on the open licence tho)
Also bear in mind with these agreements you get a full CD set of all MS software , so they are placing a lot of trust in you and your company that you will be in licence compliance so an audit is fair imo
Yeah Accordo has enquired about MS software for the company I work for twice in the last 3 to 4 years.
They probably get a cut of the sales of any new licenses as they seem to be very interested in getting you to buy more software, I even had to point out a clause in one of the licenses to show that I didn't need to purchase more licenses that they were insisting I did.
The first time they just accepted what I said about OEM licenses but the second time I had to start writing down OEM product keys.
Each time I suspect its going to be more and more rigorous!
It is probably Accordo. This is common for those who use MS Select and MS Enterprise agreements and probably the open licencing agreement.
terms of the select and enterprise agreements give MS rights to audit you (can't comment on the open licence tho)
Also bear in mind with these agreements you get a full CD set of all MS software , so they are placing a lot of trust in you and your company that you will be in licence compliance so an audit is fair imo
Really? I don't get those CDs ... so obviously I'm not on those systems.
It is not accredo doing this as we get our accounting package from. Must be Unison.
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