>In short, when I buy electronicallystored information, I expect to get a product not a permission to use information on the terms specified by a monopolist. This holds for all other products - food, clothes, furtniture, tools etc. Why should electronically stored merchandise be different?
Because, unlike a chair or a book, it's cheap to duplicate. (Even in the case of a book, the paper, printing, and binding is by far the greatest expense.)
Jenny Brown