Re: Find a galaxy that "sings" and name it Sam... then say
Then Apple can sue it for having round corners.
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Is to be able to buy, at a reasonable price, a little plastic card. Say, the size of a credit card. It isn't required to watch the content. But it proves I have paid for the right to view the content privately. I can download the content itself easily enough from plenty of sources anyway. Then I put my card in an business-card box with all the others and can easily pull them out and show to anyone that comes knocking that I have paid for the content I have on my system.
I would LIKE to pay (a reasonable price) for all my entertainment - producers can then use that money to make more of it, after all. But I insist on being able to consume it where and when and on what playback device I choose.
Stories (unverified) from my EE trades teachers many decades ago:
Phone company investigating excessive power draw on a line find a guy powering a basement packed with model trains from the 40volt phone-line float.
Power company investigating an unusually lossy major transmission line find a guy living adjacent to the line with big rolls of copper strung around his roof cavity powering his whole house.
Thank goodness my ISP lets me set up and destroy email accounts to my heart's content. Limited to 30 concurrently, as long as they aren't already in use at the time by other users (easy for random string names). I haven't even looked at the hower-many-hundred I get with my actual domain hosting.