CORRECTION - Angry Microsoft users must still pay

08.11.2006
Due to a reporting error, the story "Angry Microsoft users must still pay the fiddler," posted Monday incorrectly presented the title of a film in the fifth paragraph.

The story has been corrected on the wire and the corrected paragraph follows:

So here's the justification: function vs. content. Society has created a mode where content, once licensed legitimately, is portable. Function is not. Your example of the DVD is the perfect illustration. You buy "The Dukes of Hazzard" DVD (for the intellectual content, of course), and you now have the right to play said DVD (during Masterpiece Theatre downtime) on any DVD player, whenever you want -- except internationally because they change the format (hmmm). The DVD player itself, however, has an individually licensed set of embedded functions running on it. The DVD itself has individually licensed function within it -- Dolby Digital, for example. You own the right to view the content whenever and wherever you want, but anything you want to view it on will have the same individually licensed function.