[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.

[BkBinder]

If HP also restricts customers' ``fair use'' rights -- the ability to make personal copies and quote from others' works -- guess that's someone else's problem.

You could make a good arguement that the various entertainment companies don't have any more respect for consumer rights than the "Napster" generation has for copyrights.

[DMCA]

I hope you understand that if this technology is fully implemented it will have a very negative effect on sites like freerepublic. Any site that wish its text to not be copied at all will just flag it and BAM! the OS will not allow it to be posted to FR.

In other words, this tech doesn't distinguish between legitimate fair use rights and illegal copying. It attempts to stop all copying.

[lentulusgracchus]

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

Yeah, people like that are scum.

By the way, I'll be invoicing you monthly for the air you breathe. I've copyrighted it, and actually breathing it and exchanging your stinky carbon-dioxide molecules for my pristine oxygen molecules doesn't fall within "fair use".

For planning purposes, just so you'll know, I'll be billing $40/month per individual, $500/month for corporate and industrial use, and $10/month (a concessory rate) for children and pets.

My terms are 30 days net. Please pay promptly, or I'll auction off your house.

[steve-b]

These issues have been explained to you so frequently that you may no longer be considered merely mistaken, but rather are established as a deliberate liar.