Windows Media Player user license extensions

[Bettina Jodda (Twister)]

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 15:39, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <15650.63119.913633.666706@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Ian
> Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes
>
> >Users who are convinced that they don't have rights won't try to
> >enforce them even if they do exist.
>
> So you really think that in 15 years and a billion PCs sold there's not
> been one user stroppy enough to take this to a test case and win? I've
> not even heard of a test case that was lost.

Apparently people tend to more and more accept what they are being told 
without thinking for themselves.
Take the recent debate about your own private copy --- the more you tell 
people it is theft, it is illegal etc. the more they believe in this.
And - with arguments like "well, of course you have the right to have your own 
copy but you must admit that the economy relys on you and so your right has 
to be limited" and stuff like that people tend to say "alright alright, I do 
not want to be selfish" etc.

There might be users stroppy and stubborn enough - but to what price? How long 
will it take to defend your right?
And - will people reconsider their opinion?

As lang as the "everything is fine"-mentality is going on, things like crypto, 
things like defending your rights etc. will still be something like "exotic 
pets"...
unfortunately

Twister