Sentence examples for legitimate consumer from inspiring English sources

This misstep only feeds legitimate consumer fears that companies and governments are too quick to use private data in unauthorized ways.

They say they are responding more actively to legitimate consumer demands and are willing to brave the backlash that may come from pursuing legal action against individuals for making unauthorized copies of music in their homes.

He has introduced legislation intended to promote the availability of DVD-copying tools designed primarily for legitimate consumer use, and to extend fair-use provisions of copyright law to consumers who break anti-copying protection.

Amazon has steadily grown into a legitimate consumer electronic company.

If you call one, ask for references and investigate whether it's affiliated with a legitimate consumer advocate association.

But last week saw the debut of an Oakley product that is a legitimate consumer electronics device: The Oakley Airwave.

Equally disturbing was the author's not-so-veiled admiration for this gaming of the system, which affects the rest of us legitimate consumers with higher retail pricing and potentially restrictive return policies in response.

ElcomSoft said the program, which was sold for $99, lets legitimate consumers of e-books stretch the limits imposed by Adobe's software, which often prohibits them from making a copy of a book to read on an additional computer or to use as a backup in case it is erased.

Intertrust holds a treasure trove of patents that help content owners manage digital rights; it has spent five years and tens of millions of dollars developing a standard called Marlin, which aims to keep content secure in a way that legitimate consumers won't find offensive.

Many medical marijuana patients and business owners privately support recreational legalization but worry that they will lose their hard-fought status as legitimate consumers and purveyors if the federal government decides to crack down on the industry as a whole without regard for its hard-fought, legitimate medical distribution and use.

To be sure, some technologies have challenged traditional notions of privacy, or even presented new risks to consumers, and to the extent that there are legitimate risks of consumer harm, these concerns should be taken seriously.