Re Patrick's comment on the WaPo story on Grokster: next time you ride the DC subway, notice the used newspaper receptacles, which are carefully designed to make it impossible to extract a newspaper for re-reading.

They were donated to Metro by the Washington Post Company, which seems to have a pretty good grasp of property rights when its own interests are involved.

Indeed, this goes beyond the WaPo's rights, because it deliberately frustrates the first sale doctrine, which gives an initial purchaser of a physical object containing IP the right to pass that object on to others.

Where is the EFF when you really need it?