Re:"Consumers" have no "rights". (Score 1)

What an outrageous post. "If you do not accept the license agreement, you have no right to use the software. If you use it anyway, you are a felon. This crime is far worse than rape or murder, because it strikes at the heart of the system of natural incentives which drives our free economy." Worse than rape or murder? These crimes naturally do not strike at the heart of anything particularly or comparably important!?! I thought at the heart of our system was the concept of individual liberty, based on the notion of negative freedom (i.e. freedom from things... like being raped or murdered by our fellow men...) After such liberty is gauranteed then and only then is our "free economy" possible as this economy rests entirely on freedom from arbitrary confiscation of property, etc. In other words, our system is based on everybody having oodles and oodles of rights and (surprise) for every right I can be said to possess, you have a corresponding obligation and vice versa... Voila, liberal democracy; more or less what we are living in. This is not a question of consumer vs. vendor. The is simply a disussion of whether or not the proposed legislation will lead to a dangerously lopsided transaction between two parties. In my opinion, based on a rational weighing of the issues, it will. Thus it sucks and sucks large. I am more than half convinced that the "Consumers" have no "rights" post is simply a very good satire, in its' amusing combination of rabid irrationality and cheap sloganism. If this is this case, Bravo! If this is not the case it is even funnier (after you get over your sadness, outrage and indignation).