Copyright continued...

[the_leander]

I hate it when I got to a restaurant and pay for a meal, but when I try to leave with the plates, knifes and forks then they call the police. They didn't tell me before I paid that I wasn't allowed to take them.

Strawman.

Back on topic.

I too hope it gets appealed (again).

[the_leander]

In the UK the record labels when faced with gertsy's point swapped and changed to suit themselves. Got a damaged disk? Tough you only bought a product. Want to play it in your shop? Sorry you'll have to pay extra as your current licence doesn't allow for that...

[the_leander]

While I get the point of your analogy, the one flaw with it would be the restaurant could stop you from doing so on the grounds that giving your meal to another potential paying customer is harming his sales and business and he would be legally within his rights to stop you and even remove you from his premisses.

Actually I believe games companies like Nintendo, Sega and more recently Sony have used pretty much the above justification for trying to stamp out the second hand markets in Japan.