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Originally Posted by recycledelectron
DRM supporters are immoral because they are willing to throw our society away for a few bucks.
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By that reckoning, so are 99% of the "legitimate" businesses worldwide. We get that you don't like DRM, any more than we do, but you don't have to over-exaggerate.
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Originally Posted by recycledelectron
Selling products you know will not work part of the time, due to your deliberately inserted code, and then refusing refunds is immoral.
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That's why "Buyer Beware" is such a well-known axiom. I'm not saying they were justified, just that business is cutthroat (another well-known axiom), and that a lot of people take risks and end up victims just like you (and me). Immoral? Well, yeah. Watch your back.
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Originally Posted by recycledelectron
Let me repeat your words..."the SW maker simply can't anticipate every system and contingency"
As time goes on, it will be more difficult to anticipate the changes. Eventually, it is impossible.
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Yes, if things aren't designed well from the get-go. Eventually, entropy will get us all. (I can feel it's pull from here...)
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Originally Posted by recycledelectron
Therefore, to limit products to only run in their approved circumstances with deliberate software locks that are illegal to bypass under the DMCA is to prevent their products from being useful.
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To
you... not to those who use it as it was intended.
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Originally Posted by recycledelectron
Someone like you or Zahi Hawass will tell a cop (like the one that destroyed my library years ago at a traffic stop) to trash my library - it might contain an unauthorized picture of the great pyramid in a history book from 1893. It might be on recordable media. I might not need all those files. There might be something in there that I don't need to be reading. Maybe my time could be better spent elsewhere.
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You're putting words in my mouth. Now just relax... lie back on the sofa... and, in your own words, tell me about this unfortunate traffic incident... Did this policeman have any resemblance to... your father?...
