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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

Why console makers can legally brick your game console

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Why console makers can legally brick your game console

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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago
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“If the ability [to brick a console] is there, someone will want to ‘see how it goes.'”…
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    Furniture? Pretty sure they can’t come into my house to cut the feet off my tables, anyway.

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      they can brick your “smart” table, turning it into just wood, just as they can brick your switch, turning it into… a brick

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        Throw that brick through their window

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        Sounds like we have a lot of work to do for freedom of ownership.

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          extremely hard to overturn the DMCA

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