I'm really with you on this one - getting angry at Copyright's protections being used as a weapon against First Sale is a distracting tangent. Even here with a

I'm really with you on this one - getting angry at Copyright's protections being used as a weapon against First Sale is a distracting tangent. Even here with a strong tech audience, and plenty of back-stories and examples even non-technical folks can comprehend, as in iTunes/iBook/etc is selling a licence of a copy and can revoke that copy under select circumstances, IIRC. If I was to come up with an comparable situation, I think it would be people demanding a "No Smoking on the Beach!" ordinance because of the cigarette butts littering the beach, when there's already a law against littering on the beach, but isn't being properly enforced.