[sinkspur]

If you do mind, tell the companies that restrict your rights why you're not going to be their customer anymore

This guy's nothing more than a common thief.

He thinks that a company that protects its copyright is "restricting your rights."

Must be a cap-turned-around adolescent (no matter his physical age) who's infected by Napster.

Everything's free.

[tahiti]

"...to placate an entertainment industry that tramples customers' rights in the name of curbing copyright infringement."

What? Customer's rights?

Wrong.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8,

"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries:"

That is the right that is being protected from infringement and rightfully so.

[BlueNgold]

Big bad evil companies daring to try to make a profit and trying to use technology to protect their work product. Bad corporations! Bad! Now go to your rooms!

[Revolting cat!]

Amidst the accusations of thievery and other idiocies above, the deep thinkers predictably miss the implied question of the article: Why should HP or Microsoft build into their products protection for the "intellectual property" of some Joe Schmucker who wrote the trite lyrics to a hit song by the Archies in 1967? To begin with, if Mr Schmucker was concerned about others misappropriating his property he should have kept in his head. As he didn't, millions of people took his intellectual property into their heads, some did it unwillingly, for about a month in 1967. Schmucker got cheated of his royalties by record company, by his music publishers, and now I'm told that a kid downloading a binary file which contains a reproduction of of this recording is the real criminal. Computer hardware and software companies and high fidelity equipment companies have no business conspiring to cripple the capabilities of their products to satisfy the whims of the RIAA and other mafioso outfits.

[meyer]

analog, analog, analog. Its safer.

[Paul C. Jesup]

The major backers of DRM and striping consumer freedoms are not even mentioned in this article, they are the RIAA and MPAA.