IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT, AS WELL AS THE NAPSTER SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE AND MUSIC STORE TERMS OF USE THAT ARE IMMEDIATELY BELOW IT CAREFULLY BEFORE CONTINUING THE INSTALLATION OR FIRST USE AND ACTIVATION OF THIS SOFTWARE:
This license agreement (“License Agreement”) is a legal agreement between you and Napster, LLC (“Napster”). You are installing and/or accessing and activating pre-installed software and associated materials and documentation that have been created by or for Napster or its suppliers or licensors (collectively the “Software”). You understand that the software includes security components that permit digital information to be protected and use to occur only as permitted by usage rules set by Napster and/or content providers. As such, certain special considerations apply. By installing, copying, or otherwise using the Software, and by accepting any Software updates from time to time, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this License Agreement, and agree to be bound by its terms and conditions. If you do not agree to (or cannot comply with) the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, do not install, copy, and/or use the Software or any Content (as described below).
NOTICE: Napster may from time to time amend, modify, or supplement this License Agreement as it pertains to the Software and Content by posting a copy of such amended, modified, or supplemented license agreement at http://home.napster.com/info/eula.html. Please check that webpage regularly for revisions to this License Agreement. You may provide notice to Napster of any objection to such revised terms within thirty (30) days after they are posted; please send any such objection by email to support@napster.com. You will be deemed to have accepted the amended, modified, or supplemented terms if you thereafter use the Software or Content. All other terms of this License Agreement will continue in effect except as provided in paragraph 11 below.
Authorized Use of Napster Content. The Software may enable you to listen to, view, and/or read (as the case may be) music, images, video, text, and other material that may be obtained by or were in some instances, previously provided to you in digital form. This material, collectively “Content,” may be owned by Napster or by third parties. However, in all circumstances, you understand and acknowledge that your rights with respect to Content you obtain for use in connection with the Software (including any Content that may have been preloaded with the Software, to your computer, portable device or a CD or other media provided to you) will be limited by copyright law and by the Usage Rules, as described in the Terms and Conditions of the Napster service, with which authorized copies of the Content are electronically packaged. A copy of the Napster Terms and Conditions, with which you must agree to use the Napster service, is located at http://home.napster.com/info/terms.html. “Usage Rules” are the licensing rules assigned by Napster and/or the pertinent Content owner to Content that limit your access to and use of it. Unauthorized copies of Content (including pirate and other illegal copies) may be electronically packaged with incorrect rules that have not been approved by Napster and/or the Content owner. The Usage Rules approved by Napster and/or the pertinent Content owner in respect of Content shall govern your rights with respect to that Content regardless of whether unauthorized rules have been associated with that Content by another party. The supply of this product does not convey a license nor imply any right to commercially distribute content created or accessed with this product in revenue-generating broadcast systems (terrestrial, satellite, cable and/or other distribution channels), streaming applications (via Internet, intranets and/or other networks), other content distribution systems (pay-audio or audio-on-demand applications and the like) or on physical media (compact discs, digital versatile discs, semiconductor chips, hard drives, memory cards and the like). You may not attempt (or authorize, encourage or support others’ attempts) to circumvent, reverse engineer, decrypt, break or otherwise alter or interfere with any Usage Rules or Content.
The Software enables Napster to control your access to Content in accordance with the Usage Rules. Napster (for itself and its Content licensors) reserves the right to use the Software at any time to enforce the Usage Rules with or without notice to you.
Further Limitation of Liability. In addition to the other provisions hereof, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE TO AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF NAPSTER AND ITS LICENSORS AND PARTNERS THAT THE SOFTWARE, AS WITH MOST SOFTWARE, MAY CONTAIN BUGS AND IS NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY OR PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE. NAPSTER AND ITS LICENSORS AND PARTNERS SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANY LOSS SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF SUCH A FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE OR A BREACH OF SECURITY INVOLVING THE SOFTWARE, WHETHER OR NOT SUCH LOSS OR BREACH RESULTS FROM THE DELIBERATE, RECKLESS, OR NEGLIGENT ACTS OF ANY PERSON.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL NAPSTER OR ITS LICENSORS OR PARTNERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY UNAUTHORIZED USE OF ANY CONTENT, OR ANY USE OF THE SOFTWARE TO DEVELOP, DISTRIBUTE, OR USE ANY MATERIAL THAT IS DEFAMATORY, SLANDEROUS, LIBELOUS OR OBSCENE, THAT PORTRAYS ANY PERSON IN A FALSE LIGHT, THAT CONSTITUTES AN INVASION OF ANY RIGHT TO PRIVACY OR AN INFRINGEMENT OF ANY RIGHT TO PUBLICITY, THAT VIOLATES OR INFRINGES ANY THIRD PARTY’S RIGHTS OR THAT VIOLATES ANY FOREIGN, FEDERAL, STATE OR LOCAL STATUTE OR REGULATION.
IN NO EVENT WILL NAPSTER OR ITS LICENSORS OR PARTNERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF NAPSTER AND/OR ITS LICENSORS AND PARTNERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. TO THE EXTENT AS APPLIED IN A PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCE ANY DISCLAIMER OR LIMITATION ON DAMAGES OR LIABILITY SET FORTH HEREIN IS WHOLLY PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THEN NAPSTER AND ITS LICENSORS AND PARTNERS SHALL BE ENTITLED TO THE MAXIMUM DISCLAIMERS AND/OR LIMITATIONS ON DAMAGES AND LIABILITY AVAILABLE AT LAW OR IN EQUITY BY SUCH APPLICABLE LAW IN SUCH PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY CONTRARY PROVISIONS, IN NO EVENT SHALL NAPSTER’S LIABILITY TO YOU OR ANY PERSON EXCEED, IN THE AGGREGATE, US$10.
Gracenote Database/Data. The Software contains software from a licensor of Napster, CDDB, Inc. of Berkeley, California d/b/a Gracenote (“Gracenote”). The software from Gracenote (the “Gracenote CDDB2 Client”) enables this application to do online disc identification and obtain music-related information, including name, artist, track, and title information (“Gracenote Data”) from online servers (“Gracenote CDDB Servers”) and to perform other functions. You may use Gracenote Data only by means of the intended end user functions of the Software.
You agree that You will use Gracenote Data, the Gracenote CDDB2 Client, and Gracenote CDDB Servers for Your own personal non-commercial use only. You agree not to assign, copy, transfer or transmit the Gracenote CDDB2 Client or any Gracenote Data to any third party. YOU AGREE NOT TO USE OR EXPLOIT GRACENOTE DATA, THE GRACENOTE CDDB2 CLIENT, OR GRACENOTE CDDB SERVERS, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PERMITTED HEREIN.
You agree that your non-exclusive license to use the Gracenote Data, the Gracenote CDDB2 Client, and Gracenote CDDB Servers will terminate if you violate these restrictions. If your license terminates, you agree to cease any and all use of the Gracenote Data, the Gracenote CDDB2 Client, and Gracenote CDDB Servers. Gracenote reserves all rights in Gracenote Data, the Gracenote CDDB2 Client, and the Gracenote CDDB Servers, including all ownership rights. You agree that CDDB, Inc. may enforce its rights under this Agreement against you directly in its own name.
The Gracenote CDDB2 Client and each item of Gracenote Data are licensed to you “AS IS.” Neither Gracenote nor Napster makes any representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the accuracy of any Gracenote Data from in the Gracenote CDDB Servers. Gracenote reserves the right to delete data from the Gracenote CDDB Servers or to change data categories for any cause that Gracenote deems sufficient. No warranty is made that the Gracenote CDDB2 Client or Gracenote CDDB Servers are error-free or that functioning of Gracenote CDDB2 Client or Gracenote CDDB Servers will be uninterrupted. Gracenote is not obligated to provide you with any new enhanced or additional data types or categories that Gracenote may choose to provide in the future and is free to discontinue its online services at any time.
GRACENOTE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Gracenote does not warrant the results that will be obtained by Your use of the Gracenote CDDB2 Client or any Gracenote CDDB Server. IN NO CASE WILL GRACENOTE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR LOST REVENUES.