Pay for the right to do what ever I say you can do
These two links go hand in hand, certain governments are examining the possibility of searching media players at customs for pirated video at the behest of major media companies, and an Arizona federal court has ruled that if the End User License Agreement of software says it is License, even if you think you bought it and it appears to an outside observer you bought it, then it is a license and you don’t own it. The former leads directly to the latter; media companies believe that after you have paid them, they still control the product. Notice, crucially, that “piracy” is defined by these companies as doing things like ripping CDs on to an MP3 player, or copying a DVD on to your computer to watch on the plane. It is irrelevant, at least to these companies, whether you bought the CD or DVD first, the act of doing something they disapprove of is piracy.
Maybe we should be worried about Terrorist iPods.
