1. Alexander Wehr on November 17, 2004 8:04 AM writes...

This guy apparently thinks its perfectly OK to be rendered a serf and have your property and its uses governed for you by the "lords" of the program.

he completely misses the point, and ill quote it here:

"DRM is unconstitutional, and should be ruled as such.

It is, with unmitigated gall, governing YOUR purchased property and dictating how you use it in your own home. I cannot personally think of anything more unamerican, why not do the same to cars? put "speed rights management" into vehicles... who cares about the gun crazed road rager or your wife whose in labor.. you cant go faster, period.

What it is is the destruction of what should be protected fair use in order to: unfairly administer other people's computers, make people pay three or more times for the uses which were their protected right not 5 years earlier, and remove the capacity of people to invent new uses for created products..

Some better examples of DRM abuse has been demonstrated by wide reports of several new games (notably doom3) uninstalling people's burner software, or refusing to install if they have the capacity to record cd's/dvd's on their computers.

It is wholesale consumer rape, and it is accomplished at the cost of several amendments in the bill of rights, as well as the fair use clauses of the copyright act, betamax doctrine, and other important case law."

add to that the all important first sale doctrine.