iTunes Prohibits Terrorism 124
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samzenpus
from the great-songs-come-with-great-responsibility dept.
from the great-songs-come-with-great-responsibility dept.
Afforess writes "A recent closer look at the oft-skimmed EULA agreement for iTunes has an interesting paragraph in it, Gizmodo reports. 'You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.' Although humorous, some readers suggested that this may be a defense measure to previously discussed price changes in the iTunes music store."
Boilerplate. (Score:5, Informative)
That language probably came right from the EULA for Mac OS X.
-jcr
Seriously? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:"Terrorism" (Score:1, Informative)
Did you miss the last 8 years?
Re:Laughable. (Score:5, Informative)
The idea that you'd use OS X for something as serious as missile development / nuclear simulations is laughable.
Laugh all you want, but there are a lot of Mac users at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos. They use Xgrid. [apple.com]
-jcr
Cryptographic Export Control (Score:1, Informative)
I would imagine it has something to do with the export regulations on strong cryptography, something they probably use in their DRM code.
Re:Laughable. (Score:3, Informative)