content: How do these retards think this is a good idea?  Because it gives them control and money.  Even if we push aside the obvious censorship aspects of this, simple fact of the matter is that companies want to own all of it (1).  What's "it?"  Literally, everything.  They want to charge you for all content on pay-per-view on media, pay-per-day on software, renting all the equipment and most computerized devices in your home.  Unfortunately they're already doing that, and copyright law is how they're making it more iron clad, by basically forcing people to accept EULAs or have to deal with non-functional stuff. (1) Actually they want you to legally own stuff, since you pay for it to actually be built.  But they want complete and unfettered control over it, above and beyond your control, so that they can do as they wish with equipment that is theoretically and legally yours - and also, dictate what you can't do with it, like, I dunno, copy or access things they don't want you to.