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Reasonable?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#23)
by Anonymous User on Tue Oct 07, 2003 at 03:50:51 PM PDT

How much of your automobile is computer aware? A very few years ago, you could easily have said "none" and that would be the end of it. Today's cars are entirely dependent on computers. Guess what those computers use to get the fuel mixture right, and the ignition timing right, and all those little do-dads on your instrument panel that you have little clue as to how they really operate. Software. Programs that have to be licensed. Oops. When the programmer demands that you pay him a new license fee when you want to sell your fancy computer driven vehicle on the second hand market, I am sure you will pony up without a wimper. You did read all the fine print when you bought that car, right?

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We're not talking about transfer of copyrights[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#34)
by ajcook on Wed Dec 03, 2003 at 02:50:57 PM PDT

In my opinion, you're taking my analogy which was meant for a 50,000 foot conceptual view of DRM in general (which I still hold as justifiable), and bringing it down several notches in detail to include side issues of transferring goods to another party.

It seems to me that existing copyright law speaks to the issue you raise...that of the purchaser of a copyrighted item (such as a book), to sell/transfer that material to a subsequent purchaser.

Vendors that try to step around those long-held copyright principles should be held accountable for that, but I'll still defend their right to protect the number of copies that are in use against the number of copies that are legitimately purchased.

Where I agree that we all have legitimate complaint is with the current implementation of DRM. That's all.

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