It's basically a form of DRM, and the first time I saw it I was pretty taken aback too. Although this time, I'm actually on Oracle's side, since their workaround is yet another example that shows how technological measures to enforce copyright are an awfully bad idea.
Maybe when more people realise the distinctly unique aspects of digital data and how, for lack of better words, pliable and copyable it is, we can have a real copyright reform. Of course that requires the population understand this type of thing, but a copyright reform is exactly what companies like Oracle don't want, so the probability is pretty low...
Maybe when more people realise the distinctly unique aspects of digital data and how, for lack of better words, pliable and copyable it is, we can have a real copyright reform. Of course that requires the population understand this type of thing, but a copyright reform is exactly what companies like Oracle don't want, so the probability is pretty low...