The institutionalized theft known as Digital Rights Management

Why do I consider it theft? Simple reason, it pretends that you no longer have the right of ownership and that the original seller can take back your property at their whim. This is called theft when people without expensive lawyers and corrupt judges do it.

But we are expected to take it lying down.

So what starts me on this is I recently had to replace a dying motherboard. So when I fire up iTunes again...I have to reauthorize the songs I've bought directly from iTunes...for use on the same machine. So I've used two of the five authorizations generously given me for use of my property to play a song on just one machine.

Gee thanks iTunes.

And some will complain that I signed that away with their ToS. But you can no more sign your right to unlawful seizure of property (which is really what DRM boils down to) than you can sell yourself into slavery.

Now the real shenanigans come in retail stores. Buy software lately? I bet you haven't...because if you look at those half-baked EULA's, you didn't really _buy_ anything. You're just essentially leasing it. Sound like bait-and-switch? It should, and it needs to be exposed in my opinion.

Or at least they should be required to post the ENTIRE EULA on the box so you have the option to read it...like you would with any other leasing arangement.

/rant