Because the missile silos were rigged to launch all their nukes simultaneously on the USSR if they lost contact with WOPR, interpreting it as an attack.
Not exactly interactive in the "choose your own adventure" sense, more like a "paint your own video and share it" sense, but I love this interactive animated music video:
Likewise, if my name is Joe and I have "Joe's Pizza", and somebody in town X opens "Joe's Laundromat", I have the right to complain because SOMEDAY I might want to open a laundromat.
Any law that doesn't allow you to know if you're breaking it until you're breaking it and punished for doing so is completely out of touch with reality.
I think they specifically mean the business that sells the stuff, as it can be assumed they're not going to take the brand new CD players off the shelves and use them to play "pirated" CDs. By end users, they probably also means business that BUY the CD players and use them for whatever (and surely must be criminals and raporists).
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I suppose you'll then demand that people back up their backups.
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The complaint here is that it shouldn't.
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That's not how trademark law works.
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(yes I cheated using HTML special format ;) hope it works tho)
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