Comments on: Spotify/7digital’s unfortunate EULA http://spraff.net/2010/01/spotify7digitals-unfortunate-eula/ The alternative web digest Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:30:56 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Graham http://spraff.net/2010/01/spotify7digitals-unfortunate-eula/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Graham Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:29:34 +0000 http://spraff.net/?p=421#comment-101 Martin, The beautiful thing about the way it's written is that for the end user, in reality they can copy the file to as many players as they want - the restriction is on the 'use' (aka. playing) of the file rather than the amount of backups, devices, etc. A badly written, unenforceable EULA - what's new?! Martin,
The beautiful thing about the way it’s written is that for the end user, in reality they can copy the file to as many players as they want – the restriction is on the ‘use’ (aka. playing) of the file rather than the amount of backups, devices, etc. A badly written, unenforceable EULA – what’s new?!

]]> By: Martin Skivington http://spraff.net/2010/01/spotify7digitals-unfortunate-eula/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Martin Skivington Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:42:25 +0000 http://spraff.net/?p=421#comment-100 Alyssa, thank you for taking the time out to give your opinion, it's very much welcome and I appreciate where you're coming from. I agree it's a biggie that DRM is off the cards - hopefully that signals a step in the right direction. But it's unfortunate that the same restrictions DRM was intended to enforce (ie. limited number of portable devices, no ringtones, etc.) are still part of an arbitary license agreement, which incedentally, most music-buying-kids won't even read twice (let alone consider obeying!). Alyssa, thank you for taking the time out to give your opinion, it’s very much welcome and I appreciate where you’re coming from.

I agree it’s a biggie that DRM is off the cards – hopefully that signals a step in the right direction. But it’s unfortunate that the same restrictions DRM was intended to enforce (ie. limited number of portable devices, no ringtones, etc.) are still part of an arbitary license agreement, which incedentally, most music-buying-kids won’t even read twice (let alone consider obeying!).

]]> By: alyssa http://spraff.net/2010/01/spotify7digitals-unfortunate-eula/comment-page-1/#comment-97 alyssa Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:32:09 +0000 http://spraff.net/?p=421#comment-97 I wrote this and wish we did not have to include such terms. Since 7digital and Spotify are licensed by the big four, we are required to include their specific clauses into our EULA. The important thing is that the majors have moved away from DRM. By offering MP3s for sale, there is great flexibility to manage your music collection. The fact that you get up to 5 back up copies stored for you on Spotify or 7digital is something no other retailer provides. EULAs at other legal download services will have similar notices about personal use only, please don't email the files to your friends etc. I wrote this and wish we did not have to include such terms. Since 7digital and Spotify are licensed by the big four, we are required to include their specific clauses into our EULA. The important thing is that the majors have moved away from DRM. By offering MP3s for sale, there is great flexibility to manage your music collection. The fact that you get up to 5 back up copies stored for you on Spotify or 7digital is something no other retailer provides. EULAs at other legal download services will have similar notices about personal use only, please don’t email the files to your friends etc.

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