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You May NOT Use iTunes To Design, Manufacture or Produce Nuclear, Chemical or Biological Weapons
9:40AM Jason Chen | Are we clear on this? Steve Jobs doesn’t want to be seeing any nerve gas canisters with DRM-free iTunes Plus support. [Gear Live] More »
Software
Giz Explains: The Windows 7 Beta Fine Print
5:00AM Matt Buchanan | Windows 7 is the largest OS beta test ever. If you followed our guide you’re already snapping, peeking and poking around in it. But did you read the fine print before you clicked install? More »
Entertainment
Disney Sucks the Magic Out of Films With 120 Pages of Blu-Ray Legalese
8:30PM John Herrman | Sleeping Beauty is Disney’s first classic animated film to make its way to Blu-ray, and it’s loaded with legitimately compelling BD-Live extra features. Format War Central tried to check these out, but got smacked with a 57 page EULA followed by a 63 page Privacy Policy before they could view any of them. Also upsetting: the new ending, in which Princess Aurora, upon waking up from Phillip’s kiss resolves to become a copyright lawyer for a large electronics company. [Format War Central] More »
Software
Google Updating Chrome EULA to Be Less Creepy
6:26AM Matt Buchanan | Google has responded with haste to the huge outcry about a section in Chrome’s EULA that gives Google “a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license” to do all kinds of dirty stuff—in public no less—to content you post through Chrome. Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome, told Ars that it’s actually an oopsie from basically copying and pasting the same EULA it uses in other products, and that they’re updating it as fast as they can to remove the ridiculous terms. More »
Software
Google Chrome EULA Claims Ownership of Everything You Create on Chrome, From Blog Posts to Emails
2:00AM Adam Frucci | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Google_Claims_Ownership_of_Everything_You_Create_in_Chrome/'; So, are you enjoying the snappy, clean performance of Google Chrome since downloading yesterday? If so, you might want to take a closer peek at the end user licence agreement you didn’t pay any attention to when downloading and installing it. Because according to what you agreed to, Google owns everything you publish and create while using Chrome. Ah-whaaa? Here are the juicy bits in question: More »
Computers
Psystar Lawyers Hinting at Antitrust Defence Against Apple
4:00AM Sean Fallon | If you thought Mac cloners Psystar were going to go on the Apple chopping block without a whole lot of fuss…think again. The case is about to get a lot more interesting now that their defence team seems prepared to play the antitrust card in court. As Colby Springer, one of the lawyers on Psystar’s team noted: More »
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