Re: "Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)" by David Weber

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:29:40 -0700, Paul S Person
<[email protected]> wrote:

>We are wandering here into the legal wasteland of just what it means
>to "own" -- well, anything digital (book, music, video).
>
>=46or example, can such things be /inherited/? Or do they cease to be
>legally useable by anyone when the purchaser moves on? I don't know it
>this has come up yet, but it will, oh yes, it will.

Why not? I have numerous times both given and received books from
other members of my family.

It's one of the reasons I refuse to deal with Apple because of all the
crap they've given me concerning my late wife's iPad - they actually
demanded proof of purchase (which I gave to her in a sealed envelope
as part of the present) despite the fact her name phone # and e-mail
address was engraved on the back of the iPad. I later found the e-copy
of my order for it but since they require me to take it to their Apple
Store IN PERSON (which is downtown in the middle of a office mall
where it's $12/hr for parking and thus not something I'm willing to do
repeatedly) for service (I want it either transferred to my account or
re-initialized) with no assurance they'll actually do it.

I'd happily return it to where it was purchased - but that was Staples
not Apple themselves. (When I went to Apple I took the iPad, copy of
will and death certificate to prove my ownership)