SD 5.11g

[Shannon]

Hey Shannon, I have zero intention or need to pirate anything and would not intentionally break any rules. I’m confused, as in your journal I thought I’d read that it would be ok to give to a partner, and if they use it on their own time, then you are allowed use one purchase between two. If I have misunderstood, then that’s all it is. And I will pay what I owe. 


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So the first thing you did was to pirate it?  Or did you give the one you purchased to her and you no longer have it or intend to use it?  You can see how that would be concerning to me, and it would trigger AP scripting as well if you bought one copy and then made an illegal copy for your wife to use as she pleases, while you do the same, effectively using it as if you bought 2 copies, when you only bought one.  If you intend to use it and so does she, you each need to have purchased a copy for yourself.  Otherwise, you're pirating it and that's going to be an issue.

I didn't think you were that type.  So let me explain again.

When you buy a copy of a program, you have the right to use that copy as you please, when you please, and have backups of it.

But you have paid for one copy, and that one copy can only be used by whomever owns it.  If you paid for it, you own it until and unless you give it away and delete all of the backups you made for yourself.  Only one person owns one copy if only one copy was paid for.

The privilege you get from buying it is not just having access to it, but the right to use it for achieving it's goals when you please.  

If you want someone else to benefit from it, then you have two options:
1. They buy it for themselves, and then they have the right to use it when they please.
2. You can use it for yourself, and allow them to be exposed to the audio.  In this case, you're using it within your fair use rights, and they're being exposed but they do not have their own copy or have the right to use it as they please or when they please. 

Only the owner of the purchased copy can have copies of it and only the owner of the purchased copy can use it.  Anyone else must either conform to the user's usage patterns or purchase a copy for themselves.

Make sense now?

You're paying for one copy and the right to use that copy and benefit from it as befits your ownership.  But anyone who doesn't own a copy has no right to have a copy or use it. 

So either your wife can listen while you use your copy (in which case, she needs to delete any and all copies she has in her possession) or you need to delete her copies and she buys a copy for herself and then uses her purchased copy.

Otherwise, both of you benefit and I only get paid once, while you're not using it according to fair use.

Hopefully that clears it up.