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There are two controversial abuses that impact software authors. Those include TPMs that apply to hardware where the keys are held by [someone] other than the owner of the hardware, and TPMs applied to digital content that can only be unlocked by specific brands of locked-down software and devices. Before any other rights of a software author can be protected, we need to know that our potential customers are allowed to make their own software choices. Both of these abuses of TPMs revoke the ability of our customers to make their own independent software choices."
Hey ! That program I just sold you ? It only runs under windows, no one else !
Hey , that DVD I sold you from Walt Disney ? You have to have a walt disney player to play it , no one elses ! And the one from Colombia studios ? Needs a Colombia studio's player !
pay pay pay !
Oh you don't like windows ? TOO BAD ! We won 80% of the market ! Sign an EXLUSIVE deal to let your stuff run on our computers (and NO ONE ELSES) or we sabatage you and it doesn't run on windows at all !
Yeah ! My name is Bill Gates and I LOOOOOVE this new copy right legislation. All of my competition is about to go belly up , it will be sooooo easy to bankrupt them all !!!!
Welcome to a microsoft world.
Your prices just tripled. Cough it up sucker.
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