Windows Media Player user license extensions

[Ian Jackson]

Roland Perry writes ("Re: Windows Media Player user license extensions"):
> Given that very few organisations (many of which have formidable legal 
> departments) force you to scroll through the whole thing, I'm inclined 
> to think they have the law on their side, rather than being part of a 
> global conspiracy to make the users think they have.

But they *are* part of a global `conspiracy'[1] to do precisely that.

Users who are convinced that they don't have rights won't try to
enforce them even if they do exist.  Furthermore if users become
convinced that they don't have these rights it will be easy to change
the `unclear' law by `clarifying' it to say that they don't (see EU
Copyright Directive et al).

[1] I say `conspiracy' but that's not really true, because it's not a
secret.  It's just spun so that you don't ever hear about it.

Ian.