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Originally Posted by Rich@ViscontiTuning
I think @ Visconti made one of the best analogies I can think of the other day when he made the comparison to music you would buy off iTunes. And obviously the whole digital music and DRM debate still rages on today, but the bottom line is, the artists produce their music and you pay to listen to it. It isn’t “your song” because you’ve paid to listen to it.. it still belongs to the artist. It’s not a perfect comparison though because I think in this incredibly niche market we’re in, the tuner has even more right to protect his work and decide who can sell and distribute it than even an artist does with their music. And the reason I say that is because Visconti Tuning guarantees free updates for the life of the tune. And that’s a huge commitment because it’s not as simple as applying a “blanket update” to every customer’s tune. Each tune has to be individually updated. And the same is true for the initial tune. It has to be individually adapted to each specific car, because as I’m sure many of you know, there are widely varying ECU models even on the same year and model car, all of which have to be supported and made to work with the base calibration. |
A CD can be transferred, iTunes music cannot. This is precisely why I will not support Apple's music store.
Sure, it's no big deal for me to remove the DRM, but I don't support the practice of buying non-transferable licenses, and I speak with my dollars.
On that note, 99% of the time, the music doesn't even belong to the artist.
So here's a question. Do the tunes you create belong to you or to ECUTek? What if there were a clause in your software that said all of your work belonged to ECUtek? (I know they don't... but lets say you suddenly found out...) What if on the next update, they updated their EULA to include such a clause? Do you read the EULA every time you update your software?