| Have software producers gone too far?
I recently reformatted my hard disk and reinstalled my OS and my programs (I do this about every six months when my computer starts to become too slow), and anyways when I went to reinstall my MS office '03 it required me to re-register my program for the program to work and such (this would have been the fourth time reloading it I think). But when I went to re-register the program on my computer it said I had registered my program too many times and wouldnt let me register it again (rendering my program useless).
And my question is this: Should software companies be allowed to limit your usage of your own items?
I dont think software companies should be allowed to control your usage of a product that you have bought, (without a paid subscription required to use it of course)
This type of product-controlling is not allowed in any other industry,
for example if you bought a lawnmower and had to send in for fuel to use it and were only allowed to send in for fuel 3 times before you couldnt use it anymore,
This wouldnt be allowed, would it, of course not.
But still software companies are allowed to put these type of restrictions on products that you have bought and paid for and have every right to use freely as you choose.
I think that any product that you buy you should have full usage rights to said product and that no company under any circumstance should be allowed to deny you usage to your own materials, |