iTunes Prohibits Terrorism

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."

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Seriously?

[AdmiralAudio]

Maddox already noted this 2 years earlier than the article in March of 2007: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant [thebestpag...iverse.net]

Re:"Terrorism"

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Did you miss the last 8 years?

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Cryptographic Export Control

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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.

[fractoid]

I'm pretty sure you don't have to be running "Super Futuristic Movie OS" with a "Design Nucular Missile System" button in order to work on missile development. Any OS that can run a CAD program (I'm taking a wild guess here and saying that's "all of them") will do just fine.