Copyright continued...

[ElPolloDiabl]

Copyright doesn't seem to be based on fixed morals. Apparently you can give all rights to the owner and flip off the hapless consumer.

See this article:

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/09/13/autodesk_software_sale_restriction_ruling/


I like the old version of copyright where you can lend/sell to anyone (and backup copy) as long as it isn't in two places at once.

[ElPolloDiabl]

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.

That's an example of a moral issue, you are depriving the restaurant owner of the plates and cutlery. In software copyright you are being ask to trash something in the belief a buyer will pay full price for a newer product.

In olden times it would have been up to the Monarch to decide buying activities and prices. In capitalism we can take our money elsewhere.

I hope we get some lobbying that's pro consumer. Otherwise it's not job providing software business that is winning, it's just a bunch of software patent trolling, so that means the lawyers are winning.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Here's something interesting:
HDCP 'master key' supposedly released, unlocks HDTV copy protection permanently

Not that it's actually needed for anything, the bluray protection has been broken in other ways already.

But it's clearly another nail in the DRM's coffin.

Good news for people who copy and sell pirated movies.
I like having a legal disc though, after I'm sick of it I can donate it to the library. With a pirated disc it has to go in the trash.