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Steve,
With respect, they don't have the right to set arbitrary conditions. Thats my point. There are certain conditions they can set and certain ones they can't (For example, a CD seller cannot tell a buyer that they cannot convert the contents of said CD for personal use). DRM is currently being used by media producers to try and use technology to accomplish what they can't accomplish via the law.
Lets look at it from another perspective. We all know copyrights are suppose to expire (whether they ever will or not in today's political climate is another story). If someone ever were to invent the perfect DRM scheme (not possible, but for the sake of the argument, lets assume it is), corporations could use it to ensure that no work ever entered the public domain ever again. Particularly since circumventing DRM, even to make fair use of a product is itself considered a crime.
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Bill
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