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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
So, from what I have read about your posts today:
1) It is fine for music labels to lock content to specific formats.
2) You think it should phone companies should not be allowed to lock phones to their service.
See, I see those as essentially the same darn things. I think if I have paid for the product, that I should be allowed to what I want with the product I have purchased.
Be it a CD I want to play on my MP3 player, a DVD I want to rip to an iPod, or a cell phone I want to use on Bell/Telus/Virgin or whomever.
Once I have paid for the product, why the heck should the company that sold it to me be able to tell me what I am allowed to do with it?
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Those are two different things though. One is a piece of art created by an artist, and the other is an electronic device created by a manufacturer.
It's very easy to get music without paying for it. It's not so easy to get an iPhone without paying for it. If a recording artist is concerned about people not paying for their music, or using their music in ways they don't like, they should have a way of rectifying that.
But cell phone manufacturers? It's not like I'm going to go out and copy my friend's cell phone.
It's not the manufacturers that lock cell phones anyway. It's the service providers, and they don't even make anything. They take something someone else made and then control how people use it. Completely different comparison.
TV is the perfect example. I should be able to pick the PVR/receiver I want to use, and get my channels from the provider I want to get them from, without having anythign locked down by either the receiver or the channel provider.
...however, if the studio that makes my favourite show doesn't want me to be able to record that show, they should have that right.