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Originally Posted by slayda
Harry, based on this statement, I suppose you would not replace your own Sony Reader's battery but would pay Sony to do it since, 1) it is not easy to do and 2) you'd be cheating Sony out of their fair profit.
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That's not the same thing at all. Sony don't give two hoots if I choose to change the battery myself. All they say is "your warranty is void if you open the case", and leave it up to you to decide whether or not to do so.
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Personally I do not hold with piracy (of any kind). This includes the "legal" piracy that industries do when they restrict my rights to do with property I purchased any thing I want to.
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There have to be restrictions on what one is or is not allowed to do with intellectual property. You talk about "restricting your rights to do with property I purchased anything I want". Do you think that you should have the right to make 100 copies of a CD and sell those on eBay? Surely that type of "right" has to be restricted, doesn't it? You are buying the physical medium, not any kind of "ownership" of its contents.