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Bruce Willis "may" sue Apple over ownership of digital music collection

claret.badger - 2012-09-03 15:20

Hollywood actor Bruce Willis is said to be considering legal action against Apple in an attempt to battle the tech giant's ‘borrowing under licence’ rule.

The restriction means that music bought through iTunes shouldn’t be shared, with Apple reserving the right to freeze the iTunes accounts of those it believes to be passing on music to others. Wilis, however, wishes to leave 'thousands of dollars worth' of downloaded music to his daughters in his will.

The Die Hard actor is reportedly considering asking his legal team to establish family trusts as the ‘holders’ of his downloaded music, so that he can pass on his digital music collection legitimately.

Success on Willis' part could change the restriction rules for the millions who have purchased songs from Apple’s iTunes Store.

 

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Interesting IF true

retro - 2012-09-03 16:00

Very interesting, I read this on mac rumors also, and they are very reliable.

retrodos - 2012-09-03 22:21

Finally someone try to go after them for this. Will they win the suit, doubt it, as they have so many terms you sign when using the service and one that allow them to revise anytime they please. Who knows maybe they found a loophole or something that overrides those terms? They just have way to many restrictions. What even worst is, if your harddrive fail and you forget to do a backup, you lose the music and they won't even allow you to download it again and you can only download it to three computer. Of course their ways of removing the DRM. So does it stop people from pirating the songs? No, because the crooks are way ahead of them, the only people they hurt, are their legitimate customers.  

 

Reason why physical copy the best way, if you need a digtal copy for phone and ipod, just convert and rip it over, only take a couple minutes if it's from CD.

 

isolator42 - 2012-09-04 05:13

This sort of thing is why I still buy CDs...

samovar - 2012-09-04 06:05

...shellac, still buy shellac