Monsanto and others vs farmers keeping seeds over for the following year and movie watchers copying thier movies for safe keeping. Also, there are moral problems with patenting life forms.
The company said it has gone to trial five times and has never lost a legal fight against an accused pirate. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1980 allowed for the patenting of genetically engineered life forms and extended the same protections to altered plants in 2001. Earlier this year, a Washington D.C. federal appeals court specifically upheld Monsanto's license.
I suppose the similarity is that for the movie people they *buy* a DVD and want to make a backup copy (yeah lots of it is pirated but I travel all the time and *do*not* want to carry origonals around), and farmers who *buy* seed but aren't allowed to reuse it... both instances, you have *bought* a product but you are severely limited in your right to use your bought product.
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