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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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No but that gets into another arena. I do have the moral right to use the intellectual property that I have purchased the right to use. OK, I don't own the intellectual property, but telling me that I can not change it so that it is useful to me is morally wrong. And that is what DRM laws are saying. I do have the moral right to read the written intellectual property that I was sold the right to read whatever format it is in.
Looked at realistically, you could say that writing something in a language that I don't understand is a form of encryption and therefore to translate it would be a violation of copyright. But no one is suing Babblefish (yet!).