Piracy is wrong

Sunder sunder at sunder.net
Mon Jul 1 12:21:59 PDT 2002


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.





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