> There is a reason and it's a darned good one: piracy.
This is not a good reason at all, especially from the consumer's perspective.
This is not a good reason at all, especially from the consumer's perspective.
Why would i "thank" someone that puts unnecessary restrictions on how i can use the program i paid them money for?
> neither immoral
I see it as very immoral to deny me access and control to the software i paid for, especially when that happens because the developer treating me in a guilty-by-default way for something they have no idea if i'll do or not.
You could thank them for writing the program for you in the first place, if they didn't then you'd have to do it yourself.
It's a game. No one is forcing you to play it.
> No one is forcing you to play it.
That has nothing to do with whether the product is moral.
The correct term is "fraud". Just because copyright trolls misuse words that way doesn't mean we should sink to their level.