Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
> Whilst I'm 100% opposed to anyone performing any copyright violation,
> I cannot really see why the machine vendor should be Microsoft's
> police either.
IMHO private citizens or companies "enforcing" the law is nothing more
that vigilantism. Private companies taking the law into their own hands,
proclaiming their customers to be guilty before (or regardless of) being
proved innocent; then forcing those customers to capitulate to their
intrusive, Draconian measures, is a violation of every principle of
modern democracy, and reduces society to something equivocal to a state
of marshal law.
It's bad enough that politics has become overrun by corporate lackeys,
essentially transmogrifying our God-forsaken planet into one big
corporate dictatorship, where citizens' "choices" are controlled by a
select few greedy monopolists; but to have those greedy monopolists then
pursue private citizens, like bounty hunters, to satisfy their obsessive
addiction to greed, is one of the most damning indictments of the state
of society in modern history.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
| make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
| - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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