To make my Halloween costume I stopped off at the drug store and bought a shower curtain liner for $3.49. Pretty simple curtain, pretty simple packaging. Or was it?
I happened to flip over the package and noticed it included a few messages: care instructions, a bar code, a logo and the name of the manufacturer, a "made in China" reference, and, naturally, a copyright notice (exactly as typed below, though without the quotes):
"This Package and Package
Design are Fully Protected by
Copyright. Infringements will
be Prosecuted."
I am chagrined that I had not previously realized the devastating effect rampant piracy was having on the shower curtain industry. It's just a matter of time before Orrin Hatch proposes that shower curtain companies who suspect that people are using infringing bathroom products be allowed to barge into their bathrooms and flush the toilets while they are showering.