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You won't get the requirement to produce your business accounting records with any other manufacturer either.
This seems to be your sticking point. This is the only manufacturer offering this unique product. Their terms are going to be unique as well, at least until another mfr implements a similar strategy and offers a similar product. In reality as opposed to fear-based conjecture land, if the terms of the contract are satisfied, I won't be required to produce accounting records. In fact, my accountant
agrees with your concept that any court ordered foray into my business/accounting cannot be a fishing expedition. Naw, Chip, that requirement isn't a big deal to someone who is maintaining their integrity while doing business.
Okay, then it's a "lease" which also comes with a "license." Kinda like my software... it comes with a license but I don't charge for FreeBook...
Yeah, and an apple is kinda like an orange. I've read your FreeBook license agreement and it refers several times to the
purchase of a license for
free software. There are no temporal limitations in your EULA. Your granting of license occurs as long as the product "exists" under the EULA's terms. SC's license is limited to a specific term. Surely you understand the nature of the licenses that they hold in order to produce karaoke product. You know that there are quantity and time limits on those licenses. Again, there doesn't seem to be a problem here for someone who is aware of the facts and continues to abide by either your EULA or SC's License Agreement.
They have to rent/lease/license more than 10 or so... and I don't see them converting me to cheerleader by distributing FreeBook either....
I don't understand this statement. I'm not being sarcastic. I don't know how to reply because it doesn't make sense to me.
Naw, it's not that big of a bulls-eye. Just reading all the lawsuits is more fun actually.
Whatever trips your trigger. I can imagine you just squintin' and smilin' as you read lawsuit after lawsuit.
It's a lollipop that means nothing because if you did something actionable, they could sue with or without a "covenant." It really is nothing and means nothing. So what's the point of this covenant? If you don't turn over your accounting records (which to me, is none of their business) then you have broken their agreement and they can sue you? Right now I don't have to give them my accounting records and they can NOT sue me for it....
If I did something actionable? First off, why the hell would I do that? Chip, it's like a horror movie where you are supposed to suspend your beliefs in order to make the plot plausible. You continue to imply that under the license agreement, SC
will order you to produce your records and that they
will sue you after they lease you the GEM series. So, when I turn on the lights, so to speak, and look at this without fear and with the knowledge that the scary monsters aren't real your plot collapses. There has to be a certain level of integrity implicit when you are doing business. I agreed to your licensee terms when I installed FreeBook (there's a pdf of the results on my website). How do you know that I haven't made copies and leased, sold, distributed, or modified them? You don't. How do I know you won't take action against me to determine if I've violated the agreement? I don't. Please drop the assumption that myself or any other user of this product is going to "do something actionable".
What's the incentive again?
1: 6000 unduplicated, MP3+G format tracks from one of the best karaoke labels out there.
2: A new system of providing content to karaoke professionals that may result in long term benefit to the participants and detriment to illegal operators.
There's a joke?