Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED.

From: Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 09:58:11 EST

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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:36:43AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Basically, in many states in the USA, you can't sell or
> lease something that will become worthless or unusable if
> the seller or leasor no longer exists.

CAD software is mostly leased these days. That would seem to contradict
your position. Can you quote some laws which say that leasing software
is illegal?

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