So I guess you'd be OK if other companies dictated to you how you could use products you purchased? Would you like your car company dictating that you could only use a particular brand of gasoline even though others would do?Would you like the company that made your TV dictate that you could only watch only programming they selected?
Well, that’s why I was wondering what century you came from... LOL...
You probably don’t know it, coming from another century, but it’s a “done deal”... :-)
But..., hey... if you want to “try one on for size” — let’s start with the music CDs. I know several people who think that once they get that music in their little grimy hands (LOL...) that it’s their music to do with any way they see fit, including giving it away to all their friends. They are probably right, too....
Re: other companies (car and TV) dictating
Those cases are not analogous. In both of those cases you purchase the physical object; with software you purchase a limited right to use it. That right to use it may be constrained by the contract you agree to to use that software. Software licensing is more akin to renting for use than purchasing.
When you rent something the renter retains ownership rights and can dictate within reason certain ways in which you can use that rental. You cannot, for example, pick up you rented building and install it at another location. You can’t modify it. Sometimes, in the case of vehicles and equipment, only you are allowed to use it.