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Originally Posted by p3aul
Well this msg is nt directed at any particular individule, but let be make another boring, simile. I go into a store and present them with a check. The say, "We can't accept checks, it's not our policy" I have two choices, I can pay cash or I can leave without my would-be purchases. What they are really saying is this. "It's our way or the highway!" I may be mad, I say " You ought to give it to me, but the bottom line is this. They own the merchandise and they have the right to distribute it as they see fit. Now the way I see it is this. They have a right to do what they want to with what is there own.
This is, I guess the point I was trying to make in another thread, when all I succeeded in doing was alienating everyone.  |
Let me make yet another simile.
You go to the bookstore and you purchase a book. Hardcover, no less.
You pay for it in cash.
You leave the store, sit on a park bench, open a book and all you find is empty pages with text "unapproved use" at the middle of each page.
You return to the shop. "
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???", you scream at the manager. "Why can't I read the book? I BOUGHT the book, I paid for it in cash and it is *MINE* to read."
The manager patiently explains: "Sir, you can only read the book when you are at home, You can not read it when there is somebody else in the room, and you have to wear our special glasses while you read it."
"But, but, but ...." you splutter. "I need *my* reading glasses, I can't see anything without them. And I thought I will be reading the book on a bench in a park, or in a hotel room, or at the bus."
"Sorry sir. This is our policy and you should have known this before paying for the book. You can apply for a special permission to read the book in a hotel room. We just cancel your permission to read at home. And, by the way, we can remotely disable your book any time we wish by shutting down permission service (understand DRM server). And don't even think about selling the book, or letting your wife to read it once you have finished it."