Comments

The whole concept of someone "selling" you a system but them retaining the rights to what you can do with it is bogus. What if the car dealership said "We'll sell you a new car at a special reduced price, but you can only drive it within 100 miles of the dealership. At 100 miles away the engine shuts off."? We need better consumer's rights. I remember encountering this issue with TV's. Some years back I bought TV's with built in VHS for my kids. They could use them in the car or in their playroom to watch their tapes. I bought a video game console thinking they could watch DVDs on their old TV as well as play video games. The VHS "copy protection" essentially makes it impossible to play DVDs on these crippled machines. Apple and Sony are big offenders in this arena. What's next, electronics that actively self-destructs after 2 years of use? Once I buy a product, I should be able to do anything I want with it.