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Originally Posted by kevman
Maybe I'm out of touch but I really don't see the big problem with the bill...
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Another scenario would be when purchased music providers decide to not support their products any more.. this has actually happened already, where company sells music or videos or whatever, then decides they're out of the business and takes all their servers and such down.. now you're left with a song that you can only play on your computer where it already is.. heaven help you if you reformat or buy a new computer, you can't move it or redownload it since the DRM servers are gone. So you break the encryption, congratz you are now a criminal.
Basically the issue is that this bill and its ilk give companies permanent rights to decide when and where you can use the stuff you purchase, forever. Imagine finding a tape at a garage sale, buying it, but you can't play it because the company that made it is out of business. Or they don't give permission to you because you run Linux and they only support Windows. Or it's only authorized to play in 3 different tape decks ever.