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With Buymusic.com, the iTunes Music Store competitor for Windows, it seems that music is permanently restricted to one registered computer, while the fine print offers a wonderful example of double-speak:



[Greg Orman] The fine print clearly states that you're only licensing the music, not purchasing it, and furthermore that the license is tied to the computer used for the transaction. If you replace your computer, you lose access to everything you've licensed and downloaded (though you'll still have any copies you burned to CD or transferred to a portable, assuming that the DRM on the songs you licensed allowed you to do that in the first place).



[Rick Zeman] Maybe they should have called their service "sublicensed.com." From their legalese at "TERMS OF SALE AGREEMENT" comes this little gem in Section 2:



Content Use Rules. All downloaded music, images, video, artwork, text, software and other copyrightable materials ''Content'' are sublicensed to End Users and not sold, notwithstanding use of the terms ''sell'' ''purchase'' ''order'' or ''buy'' on the Site or this Agreement.



Your Digital Download sublicense is nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonsublicenseable, limited and for use only within the United States. End users may play the Digital Downloads an unlimited number of times on the same registered personal computer to which the Digital Download is originally downloaded.