Which really screws over iPods then... =/

Who was it said, "All iPod owners are thieves" ?

Taping a record to play in the car is also illegal. It's one of those laws which everyone thinks is stupid and ignores, and have done since the 60s. It's also illegal to video a TV show or film if you keep it for more than 3 months or lend it to anyone. Asking your neighbour to record your favourite show is inciting a criminal act.

I started a thread in the other place about "Which laws are stupid and can be broken with impunity", but as far as I remember there was no real agreement. The basic sentiment was, you can break as many laws as you like provided you don't get caught.

This is one thing that really annoys the hell out of me. Surely the law should make sense. It may be a thin blue line, but a well defined line none the less - otherwise how the hell are you supposed to know which laws are not "valid"? When they introduced the drink-drive and seat belt laws, most people ignored them because they thought they were ridiculous. Now, very few people would dismiss them so lightly

I really don't get things like this.

I remember once reading something on a site, and it said that when you buy a game/copy of Windows/anything with a license or key, you're actually paying for the license and not the key themselves. The media itself is not worth the plastic its made from

I've torrented numerous versions of Windows because I've lost the CD/didn't get one. For example on my laptop, the recovery media thing didn't work right, and it tried to write 3gb of stuff to a single CDR and didn't ask for another one. I phoned Advent (who made the laptop) and explained to them that it didn't work. Would cost me about 9 million billion pounds to get some new ones in, and about 3 weeks. I asked them if it was OK if I downloaded a copy of XP, and the man said "Thats fine by me, but you won't have a warrenty on it if you do."

It's still running that version today. Entered my key from the WGA sticker thing, and I was away.

Music is a more grey area though. There isn't really a license to music (you don't have to enter a hexadecimal string into your CD player, do you? ), infact I don't know what it is with music.

Anti-plagrism laws or something?

I just stumbled across this image...May help the argument?