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<blockquote data-quote="d20Dwarf" data-source="post: 649845" data-attributes="member: 314">A couple of relevant quotes: I'll leave you to guess at who said them.&quot;Government is instituted no less for the protection of property than of the persons of individuals.&quot;&quot;That government alone is just which impartially secures to everyone whatever is his own.&quot;So, the dilemma is this: if a user buys software, does that user have the right to distribute copies that software? Whose claim to ownership is stronger, the person who bought the rights to one copy, or the person (entity) that created the item?It seems clear that any software purchase is a one-copy transaction, although most software allows for personal copies to be made, but not distributed. This last is the main point, and I believe what justifies either government or software creators in protecting their property with such measures as described above. As the MS brief said so succinctly, &quot;If you don't want to abide by the policy, you don't have to accept the information [install the software, download the music file, etc. --my clarification].&quot;As Bill said, let's start making China pay for its software. Hell, taxes on the income that would generate could probably pay off the national debt. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="d20Dwarf, post: 649845, member: 314"] A couple of relevant quotes: I'll leave you to guess at who said them. "Government is instituted no less for the protection of property than of the persons of individuals." "That government alone is just which impartially secures to everyone whatever is his own." So, the dilemma is this: if a user buys software, does that user have the right to distribute copies that software? Whose claim to ownership is stronger, the person who bought the rights to one copy, or the person (entity) that created the item? It seems clear that any software purchase is a one-copy transaction, although most software allows for personal copies to be made, but not distributed. This last is the main point, and I believe what justifies either government or software creators in protecting their property with such measures as described above. As the MS brief said so succinctly, "If you don't want to abide by the policy, you don't have to accept the information [install the software, download the music file, etc. --my clarification]." As Bill said, let's start making China pay for its software. Hell, taxes on the income that would generate could probably pay off the national debt. :) [/QUOTE]

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