Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
> Say somebody gives you a videogame as a gift. He paid for it, it's a 
> legal copy. And the physical media has some problem. If it's a 
> manufacturing defect, of course you could get it back from the game 
> company under warranty. But say you lost the disc, or your CD drive 
> broke it, or your dog ate it. Are you legally entitled to download it 
> off the Internet, or rip a friend's copy?

  Without a written license that proves you have the right to use the
software? Probably not.

> Like I said on the last paragraph of my first post, I didn't buy the 
> iPod. The iPod had those apps when it reached my hands, and I'd guess 
> Sun Learning Services got them legally.

  Maybe you could ask them?

> >   Of course it may be that getting the software back is part of the
> > warranty, which you voided by hacking the device...

> Note I didn't lose them by hacking the device. All I did was downgrade 
> the firmware

  That may be considered the same thing. :P

> >   OTOH, is 20 dollars really that much money?

> What if I had paid for the iPod and the 
> apps, and lost the apps for some reason, would I have to buy them again?

  I'm sure they would reinstall them at the shop as part of the warranty.
They do that all the time with cellphones.

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                                                          - Warp

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