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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Actually, I would say it is more like Corporate Facisim. They will let you buy the product, but then they are going to tell you how you use it.
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Well, if you think about it, that is very common. You can pay to see cable TV, but you cannot rebroadcast a program, share it with other households, nor charge people to come to your house to see it.
You can buy a car, but you are restricted to traffic laws and speed limits.
You can buy Windows software, but you cannot copy it and sell it to someone else.
Most people understand these implicit rules as a requirement of owning that product, and if they are happy with the product, they accept (most of) those requirements. Call that "corporate fascism" if you will, but the fact is that it is not anything out-of-the-ordinary, and no reason to attack e-books, say, unless you plan to unilaterally attack the whole capitalist system.