2003-05-14 15:14:32

by Dean McEwan

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Subject: Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARDWARE BASED.



> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:36:43AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > Basically, in many states in the USA, you can't sell or
> > lease something that will become worthless or unusable if
> > the seller or leasor no longer exists.
>
> CAD software is mostly leased these days. That would seem to contradict
> your position. Can you quote some laws which say that leasing software
> is illegal?

Not only that but you can charge less :-)
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> ---
> Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm

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