The Clicker: Digital content -- why the sense of entitlement?

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LOs @ Sep 22nd 2006 12:14PM

I believe the sense of entitlement comes from the precedent that was set by the open source natures of formats of the past. With VHS, Cassette, and so on people grew accustomed to the fact that after they bought something they could do what they liked with it. When you buy a car can you not mod it and apply all sorts of styling changes to it, maybe even swap out an engine? Sure you'll probably void your warranty, but is any automaker going to sue you for it? When you buy a head of lettuce, it's "meant" for human consumtion, but what if you feed it to your rabbits.

You cannot apply the "normal rules of commerce" to something on the consumer end of things, when the producer side of the equation doesn't do the same.

Yes, I agree, we could just not consume these products to show our distaste for the methods being applied to them. But really one must ask, why did the system have to change? It was fine the way it was (or is in the case of most things).

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