and 2) Curious Labs and any other company in such a situation, would surely provide registered users a way to permanently unlock the software should they go out of business. So the question has no reason to be IMHO. And anyway, it would be unethical. When you purchase a software, you do NOT purchase the SOFTWARE, you purchase a LICENSE of use and the content of the license is very clear about the limits of personal use. If you can not install the software as you are licensed to, then you can not use that software at all. Exactly because you did purchase the license and not the software. 3) Companies can do that. Of course, customers can also be rightly upset by such policies and refuse to purchase further more from that company. So it's not a one-way safe road for companies to do that. They may also lose customers. I would not say that doing that it's unethical. Although it is surely irrespectful. 4)software is licensed ad personam. So it's illegal and it's also unethical by our commonly accepted standards for software. 5) of course it's unethical 6) This CAN be ethical. It all depends on the EULA of the product. If the EULA contains a paragraph that says that the benefit of the student's license cease when the students is not a student anymore, then it's unethical. If the EULA does not say that, and you basically got the same EULA of the commercial product, only at a discount student price, then you can use if fully and ethically until the day you die. On your overall statement that ethical and legal are different. Yes they are, in a big way: legal is objective, and ethical is subjective. But in any society, the laws get always more or less modelled on that given society's ethics. And ethics often "adapt" to existing laws (although in a much longer time that the contrary). So it's a complex relationship between the two. One can not use one and trash the other. They go hand in hand.

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Subject: Yes ... but is it ethical?