> a device of someone who has "pair bought" avatar with me (we both split half the money to buy it) Is this actually allowed though, or would the MPAA say you'

> a device of someone who has "pair bought" avatar with me (we both split half the money to buy it) Is this actually allowed though, or would the MPAA say you're breaking copyright despite the fact that this other person spent his or her money on it. My understanding is that the license to view/use the file belongs to the account of the person who actually bought the thing, regardless of who else supplied cash for the undertaking. That could mean that while it seems obvious to you that the two of you share the ability to use the file, the reality might be much more gray (or you could just be outright wrong). This is exactly the issue that keeps me from buying digital movies (other than DRM issues), and it's why I don't own a kindle. From a legal perspective, it seems like things that are easily and legally shareable with physical items, such as DVDs and dead tree books, aren't easily or legally shareable at all. I can't download a book from Amazon to my Kindle and then, if she decides she also wants to read it, simply transfer the file it to my girlfriends Kindle as well. At least not strictly legally. We could share accounts, sure, but people break up, and even for married couples there is still a pretty high divorce rate. If we split, one of the two of us (legally) loses everything we've bought for ourselves on the shared account. I wish that there were an easy way to manage multiple accounts on your devices, so that each person could have a shared, yet separate, account to maintain their own libraries. This is hard to do, I know, and it would require some form of DRM, which is unacceptable for well documented reasons, but we need to find some analog for the first sale doctrine and easy lending. Even iTunes, with it's lack of DRM, bothers me. I could buy DRM-less music and load it onto both mine and my girlfriends MP3 players, but iTunes still adds a watermark of some kind to the file. That means that if something were to happen to the file, and it got shared, it's traceable back to me. That's fine, but I have no way to ensure that - if we were to break up - the traceable-to-me file gets destroyed from her device. It's a severely paranoid worst case scenario, and the odds against a negative result from a loose file like that are astronomical, but they're not zero, and that bothers me. I'm a reasonably techie guy. I'm a programmer, I hang out on Hacker News, I keep up (more or less) with the latest trends, but the implementation details of digital media are so counter-intuitive to me that I still buy DVDs and dead tree books.