What other industry is allowed to just do this? Its robbery. If I want to buy an Xbox and mod it to hell I should be able to. At most they should be able to disconnect me from their online infrastructure. Not brick my console.
The only place I’ve seen it is if you didn’t finish paying for it (like getting a fence replaced at your house and then not paying them will get it torn down)
What other industry is allowed to just do this? Its robbery. If I want to buy an Xbox and mod it to hell I should be able to. At most they should be able to disconnect me from their online infrastructure. Not brick my console.
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Printers
Pretty sure cars are basically the same now.
The only place I’ve seen it is if you didn’t finish paying for it (like getting a fence replaced at your house and then not paying them will get it torn down)
You get a lien, not your fence torn down usually. Cant do anything to the property until it’s paid
what industry isn’t allowed to do this?
Furniture? Pretty sure they can’t come into my house to cut the feet off my tables, anyway.
they can brick your “smart” table, turning it into just wood, just as they can brick your switch, turning it into… a brick
Throw that brick through their window
Sounds like we have a lot of work to do for freedom of ownership.
extremely hard to overturn the DMCA
they can’t brick our movie. our movies are dumb anyways.