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instructions as may be made available to you by
SONY or the THIRD-PARTY SUPPLIERS. SONY and
the THIRD-PARTY SUPPLIERS expressly reserve all
rights, title and interest (including, but not limited
to, all intellectual property rights) in and to the
SOFTWARE that this EULA does not specifically
grant to you.
REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS
You may not copy, publish, adapt, redistribute,
attempt to derive source code, modify, reverse
engineer, decompile, or disassemble any of the
SOFTWARE, whether in whole or in part, or create
any derivative works from or of the SOFTWARE
unless such derivative works are intentionally
facilitated by the SOFTWARE. You may not modify
or tamper with any digital rights management
functionality of the SOFTWARE. You may not
bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent any of the
functions or protections of the SOFTWARE or any
mechanisms operatively linked to the SOFTWARE.
You may not separate any individual component
of the SOFTWARE for use on more than one
DEVICE unless expressly authorized to do so by
SONY. You may not remove, alter, cover or deface
any trademarks or notices on the SOFTWARE. You
may not share, distribute, rent, lease, sublicense,
assign, transfer or sell the SOFTWARE. You may
not use the SOFTWARE in connection with
violation of laws, regulations, court decisions or
other legally binding dispositions by a public
authority or public policy, or infringement of the
rights or legally protected interests (including, but
not limited to, intellectual and other property
rights, rights to trade secrets, honors, privacy and
publicity) of SONY, each of the THIRD-PARTY
SUPPLIERS or any third parties. The software,
network services or other products other than the
SOFTWARE upon which the SOFTWARE'S
performance depends might be modified,
interrupted or discontinued at the discretion of
the suppliers (software suppliers, service
suppliers, or SONY). SONY and such suppliers do
not warrant that the SOFTWARE, network
services, contents or other products will continue
to be available, or will operate without
interruption or modification. You shall not, nor
shall you instruct or permit, procure, enable or
request any third party (including your users, third
party personnel or other personnel, staff or
contractors) to, take any action designed or
intended to: (i) use the SOFTWARE (or any part
thereof) in any manner or for any purpose that is
inconsistent with this EULA; (ii) introduce to the
SOFTWARE any "back door," "drop dead device,"
"time bomb," "Trojan horse," "virus," or "worm"
(as such terms are commonly understood in the
software industry) or any other equivalent code,
files, scripts, agents, programs, software routine
or instructions designed or intended to disrupt,
disable, harm or otherwise impede in any manner
the operation of the SOFTWARE or any device or
system owned or controlled by you or any third
party, or which otherwise may damage or destroy
any data or file ("Malicious Code"); (iii) interfere
with the proper working of the SOFTWARE; (iv)
circumvent, disable, or interfere with security-
related features of the SOFTWARE or features that
prevent or restrict use, access to, or copying the
SOFTWARE, or that enforce limitations on use of
the SOFTWARE; or (v) impose (or which may
impose, in your sole discretion) an unreasonable
or disproportionately large load on the
SOFTWARE.
EXCLUDED SOFTWARE AND OPEN SOURCE
COMPONENTS
Notwithstanding the foregoing limited license
grant, you acknowledge that the SOFTWARE may
include EXCLUDED SOFTWARE. Certain EXCLUDED
SOFTWARE may be covered by open source
software licenses ("Open Source Components"),
which means any software licenses approved as
open source licenses by the Open Source Initiative
or any substantially similar licenses, including but
not limited to any license that, as a condition of
distribution of the software licensed under such
license, requires that the distributor make the
software available in source code format. If and to
the extent disclosure is required, please visit
oss.sony.net/Products/Linux or other SONY-
designated web site for a list of applicable OPEN
SOURCE COMPONENTS included in the SOFTWARE
from time to time, and the applicable terms and
conditions governing its use. Such terms and
conditions may be changed by the applicable
third party at any time without liability to you. To
the extent required by the licenses covering
EXCLUDED SOFTWARE, the terms of such licenses
will apply in lieu of the terms of this EULA. To the
extent the terms of the licenses applicable to
EXCLUDED SOFTWARE prohibit any of the
restrictions in this EULA with respect to such
EXCLUDED SOFTWARE, such restrictions will not
apply to such EXCLUDED SOFTWARE. To the
extent the terms of the licenses applicable to
Open Source Components require SONY to make
an offer to provide source code in connection with
the SOFTWARE, such offer is hereby made.
USE OF SOFTWARE WITH COPYRIGHTED
MATERIALS
The SOFTWARE may be capable of being used by
you to view, store, process and/or use content
created by you and/or third parties. Such content
may be protected by copyright, other intellectual
property laws, and/or agreements. You agree to
use the SOFTWARE only in compliance with all
such laws and agreements that apply to such
content. You acknowledge and agree that SONY
may take appropriate measures to protect
content stored, processed or used by the
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