[Alberta's Child]

I never really thought about this issue, but the more I think about it the more idiotic the "shrink-wrap license" arrangement sounds.

It's sort of like having Ford or Toyota offer you an extended warranty on a new car that gets automatically voided once the buyer inserts the key into the ignition.

[quantim]

Just wait until you buy that $5000 laptop with a wireless DVD feed (in the near future) and it comes pre-packaged with an array of 'upgradeable' software programs.  The ugliness has not even begun.