Does Toyota require you make regular reports on the use of the car they sell
you?
Idiotic argument, since Toyota (and ALL other automanufacturers DO
"require you to make regular reports on the use of the car they sell
you IF you want their warranties to remain in effect.) In addition,
most OTHER manufacturers require you to keep the terms of their
warranties, if they are to keep their side of the bargain. Don't keep
the terms, no support. That's the way it is in business, and the
commercial software business is not excluded.
Now, don't keep the terms of your warranty, and they don't have to,
either. Same for Microsoft: They warranty their products (your EULA),
and provide updates (replacement parts). But ONLY if you keep the
terms of the warranty (your EULA). The Microsoft EULA includes a
proviso that they have the right to add or take away whatever is
necessary to keep the product usable.
Does Double Day publishing require your IP address every time you open
a book they've sold you? Do you owe it to Microsoft or anyone else to submit
to regular seaches, checks, snitch reports and possible seizures?
In the first place, I've never heard of Microsoft seizing a
home-user's product, in all their history. This is almost strictly a
matter of COMMERICIAL pirating of licenses of their products. It is
simply not cost-effective to make any such home seizures (unless, of
course, the "home user" is actually a "SOFTWARE PIRATE" operating out
of his home, in which case, he will get what he deserves. Maybe not
ENOUGH of what he deserves.) In addition, it would be a HUGE
public-relations tradgedy for Microsoft to seize the
Granny's-down-the-street" copy of Windows. I really don't believe
Microsoft is that stupid.
Are you
supposed to give up your freedom to WGA-N DRM DCMA and (soon AACS) and live
your life like a criminal on parole? Are the USA, Canada and Australia
supposed to be police state tyrannies or free countries? For the time being
you are still free to not care. But if things keep going the way they are
going you will not be free.
Well, if you ARE a criminal, you COULD be in PRISON, rather than "on
parole". But you know that solution to that, don't you? DON'T be a
CRIMINAL!!! Don't steal software. Don't steal music. Don't STEAL,
and the Law will not apply to you, and none of your "freedoms" will be
taken away from you. We certainly have no "rights" to ANOTHER
person's property under the rule of law.
The US Constitution tells us we have the "fundamental rights to Life,
Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". I assure you, there is NO
happiness to be gotten by STEALING. In fact, it will only make one
UNHAPPY, in the end.
And the "Right to Liberty" does NOT give us the "right to commit
crimes". In fact, commiting crime only leads to LOSING that right,
not GAINING it.
In Canada now (where I reside), a guy is going to jail for opinions he put
on a website. And now they discussing actually censoring sites from reaching
Canadians a la what the totalitarian government in China is doing:
http://www.forward.com/articles/8042
Bet you didn't know that.
We're are already heading for an Orwellian nightmare because we keep being
oblivious and not caring. If we don't stand vigilant, then we loose our
freedoms because there are many plenties of people who would take them away.
So sure WGA N is just one little thing and you don't need to care - and
that's what they always have you believe.
And sure a person can't care about everything. It's overwelming. But when
you've come to realize something is wrong and you just let your rights and
freedoms get pushed over without a whimper? That's not responsible
citizenship.
And it's certainly not "responsible citizenship" to STEAL other's
property and work, is it? Of course not. This is why modern
democracys have checks and balances, courts of law, juries, and
recourse to higher authorities when a law becomes unlawful itself.
I certainly advise you Canadians to get a Bill of Rights including the
rights to a free press and free expression sometime soon.
Sounds like your government is usurping the power of the people there.
Our people stood up against King George and his cronies when they got
tired of their shit. Perhaps you should also. But of course, ya'll
are much too "liberal" to actually hold a gun to the government's
head, aren't you? You Canadians are just "too nice" for your own
good, it appears.
Let's face it, your government certainly isn't going to let go of your
throats unless you get a little "violent", are they? If they don't
want to let go, singing songs and quoting political slogans will never
make them let go of the reigns of power. In fact, that will only make
them tighten their grip around your throats even more. And the
tighter the grip, the more chances you have of becoming unconscious,
and soon, dead, dead, dead.
I advise you to come over to the U.S., and purchase one of our hated
"guns", and smuggle it into your "nice" Country. And keep it
well-oiled and not locked up. A locked-up gun is "locked up" even
from the adults, if you can't find the key.
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