Perhaps...but I was putting my reply in terms that had been defined by Jack Wilson's statement, "When you buy a song or a movie, you are not really the new owner of that work; you are merely a licensee."
Essentially he is correct. The intellectual property or 'the work' is what you are paying the inflated price for. Certainly the materials cost very little and in the end...they unequivocally belong to the purchaser.
whereas a buyer of a CD doesn't agree to anything, explicitly or implicitly,
I've often wondered why the RIAA doesn't initiate some sort of EULA for the "software" on the product that their masters sell (Yes, they are nothing but p!$$ boys for the Big Record Labels). It sure would delineate things a bit better and put the pirates squarely in the wrong.
Verily.
Do us a favor and give trollWilson a lesson in proper Free Republic debate. I took umbrage at his sly equating of DU and FR, and I think it stepped over the line. We don't need that here.