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Old 10-22-2008, 01:02 PM   #73
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Your point is good... but ultimately it is their right as a seller to set those rules as a condition of buying their product. You are not forced to buy the product, however... if you don't like the rules, you can walk away without suffering punishment
This is the kind of pseudo-free market thinking that actually reduces to the "ones with the big guns, money, power have the right to do whatever they want" that is to my mind a big part of quite a few problems.

There is such a thing as the interest of the public around and disregarding it in whatever cause is dangerous.

I have just read Eric Flint latest essay about these topics:

"The Problem is Legal Scarcity, not Illegal Greed"

link below, and then seeing this kind of absolutist, "my way or the highway" position just seems so self-defeating as Mr. Flint points out there

http://baens-universe.com/articles/T..._Illegal_Greed
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