Terms

Last updated DATE-OF-PUBLICATION. Draft — have a lawyer read this before you rely on it.

What you are buying

These terms are the agreement between you and LEGAL-NAME-AND-ADDRESS, in the United States, which makes and sells Weir. "We" below means them.

A licence to run Weir on up to three Macs you own or control. It does not expire, it covers every update after it, and it is the same licence whether you use the program at work or at home.

What changes hands is permission to run the software, not the software. The program and everything in it stay ours. You need to be old enough to make a contract where you live.

What the licence does not allow

Do not share, sell, rent or publish your key. Three Macs means three. A key that turns up on a forum or in a list is a key that stops working.

Do not modify Weir to get around the licence check, and do not pass on a copy that has been modified that way. Where your own law gives you a right to take software apart for a particular purpose — interoperability, in much of Europe — this does not try to take that away, because it cannot.

What you use it for is yours to answer for

This is the part that matters, so it is written plainly.

Weir is a general purpose tool. It fetches what you point it at and writes it to your disk. It cannot tell what the thing at the other end is, who owns it, or what you are allowed to do with it, and it does not ask.

Whether you may download or record any particular file is a question about that file: what it is, who made it, where you are sitting, and what the site you took it from says in its own terms. Answering it is your job, one download at a time. Getting it wrong is on you.

So, squarely. Do not use Weir to infringe anyone's copyright. Do not use it to take something a site's terms say you may not take. Do not use it to reach material you have no right to see. Copying a film you have not paid for is the same act whether you do it with Weir or by hand — a faster tool is not permission.

We host nothing, and what we are told is small and listed in the privacy policy — a licence check and an update check, and nothing about what you download. There is no analytics in Weir and it reports no downloads to us, which is a deliberate privacy decision and also means we are in no position to vet what anybody does. That is why the responsibility sits where it does.

Torrents send as well as receive

A torrent does not move in one direction. While one is running your Mac sends pieces of it to other people, and that is how the protocol works rather than a setting. When the file is finished Weir keeps sharing for a while by default — until it has uploaded twice what it took, or for a day, whichever comes first. Both of those numbers are settings you can change — and setting either to zero removes that limit rather than stopping the sharing.

Distributing a copyrighted work is usually treated more seriously than taking one, and it is the half that everybody else in the swarm can see. Choose what you seed with that in mind.

Protected content, and what Weir will not do

Weir does not break DRM. There is no code in it for stripping copy protection, decrypting a protected stream, or defeating a technological protection measure, and none is going to be added. You must not use Weir as part of an attempt to do any of that.

Recording is where people expect a loophole, so: there is not one. Weir can record a region of the screen when a video has no file behind it to fetch. It does that through macOS's own screen recording, which needs the Screen Recording permission you grant in System Settings. macOS blacks out protected content in any screen capture, so a DRM-protected stream records as a black rectangle. That is the operating system enforcing the protection. Weir does not attempt to get around it and will not be taught to.

A recorder does not change what you are allowed to keep, either. If you could not download it, capturing it off the screen is not a way round that. And if what is on the screen is other people — a call, a meeting — the rules where you live about recording people apply as well, and those are not copyright rules.

Other people's software

Weir can drive yt-dlp and ffmpeg if you have installed them yourself. Neither is bundled with Weir, neither is distributed by us, and neither is ours. They are separate programs written by other people, under their own licences, and your use of them is between you and them.

Weir runs both with their configuration files disabled, so nothing already sitting on your machine can quietly change what they do when Weir calls them. That is a safety measure. It does not make us answerable for what those programs do, and if one of them changes or stops working with a site, that is outside what we control.

No warranty

Weir is provided as it is. It is written carefully and it is tested, and it still comes with no promise that it is free of faults, that it suits any particular purpose, or that it will keep working with any particular site.

That last one is worth spelling out. Sites change their players, their headers and their rules whenever they like, and when they do, something that worked last week can stop. We fix what we can fix. We cannot promise a given site will keep working, and none of the price is a promise that it will.

Where the law where you live gives you warranty rights a seller is not allowed to disclaim, you keep them, and nothing above touches them.

If something goes wrong

If using Weir costs you something, what we can owe you is capped at what you actually paid us for your licence. On the free version that is nothing. We are not liable for lost files, lost work, lost time, lost income, or anything else that follows on from using the software rather than being the software itself.

Two limits on that limit. It does not cover what a contract is not allowed to excuse, which in most places includes fraud and death or injury caused by negligence. And some countries and some US states do not permit exclusions like this at all — where that is so, this paragraph does not apply to you and the rest of these terms still does.

Keep backups of anything you cannot afford to lose. That is true of every program on your Mac, this one included.

Purchases are final

A key is delivered immediately and is sold as final. The free version is there to be tried first, for as long as you like.

Two things sit above that. Our payment provider is the seller of record, and its own refund policy applies to your order whatever is written here. And consumer law where you live is not something these terms can sign away — the right to withdraw from a distance purchase, in particular, is something we have to earn our way out of rather than assert. The refunds page sets out both.

Ending it

You end the licence by stopping. Delete the app and that is the whole of it.

We can end it if these terms are broken — if a key is published, shared or resold, or if the payment is reversed after the fact. A revoked key stops activating new Macs and stops unlocking the paid features.

Ending a licence takes nothing else with it. Your downloads, your files and your settings are on your disk and stay there. A transfer already running is not interrupted. What you are left with is the free version, with no clock on it.

If we ever stop selling Weir, the copy on your Mac keeps working. A licence is checked on the machine, offline, so nothing has to be running anywhere for the program to know it was paid for. Activating a Mac you have not used before is the one part that needs our server.

Changes to these terms

These terms can change. A change applies from when it goes up on this page, the date at the top moves with it, and it covers how you use Weir after that. It does not reach backwards. The three Macs, the no expiry and the updates are what you bought, and a later edit of this page does not take them back.

Which law applies

These terms are governed by the law of GOVERNING-STATE, in the United States, and a dispute that has to go to court goes to the courts there.

If you are a consumer somewhere whose law gives you protections, or a court near you, that a clause like this one cannot sign away, those still apply. This paragraph is not an attempt to move you.

Contact

Email: CONTACT-ADDRESS