schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoWhy console makers can legally brick your game consolearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down14cross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.orgarstechnica_index@rss.ponder.cat
arrow-up1135arrow-down1external-linkWhy console makers can legally brick your game consolearstechnica.comschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square27fedilinkcross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.orgarstechnica_index@rss.ponder.cat
minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·6 days agowhat industry isn’t allowed to do this?
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-26 days agoFurniture? Pretty sure they can’t come into my house to cut the feet off my tables, anyway.
minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 days agothey can brick your “smart” table, turning it into just wood, just as they can brick your switch, turning it into… a brick
minus-squarethermal_shock@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 days agoThrow that brick through their window
minus-squareSanctus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoSounds like we have a lot of work to do for freedom of ownership.
minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days agoextremely hard to overturn the DMCA
minus-squareleaky_shower_thought@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agothey can’t brick our movie. our movies are dumb anyways.
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.