On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Sandy Harris wrote:
The companies involved have no more right to prevent such use than I have to sell copies of their book or film on the street corner.
Speaking of Scum, (not to pull a choate, but) http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25435.html MS security patch EULA gives Billg admin privileges on your box By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 06/30/2002 at 01:05 EST <SNIP> You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management ('Secure Content'), Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer. <SNIP> So there you have it.