New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own
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Re: New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own
#2Name and shame the companies that use those techniques, then vote with your wallets and never buy their products again.
This is a problem that will mostly solve itself, given enough time...
Oh and never get tired to tell this to others, less technical folks why they shouldn't buy X from brand Y because Z, even if they don't fully understand why - tell them to give you a call, if in doubt...
Re: New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own
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Re: New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own
#4Name and shame the companies that use those techniques, then vote with your wallets and never buy their products again. This is a problem that will mostly solve itself, given enough time... Oh and never get tired to tell this to others, less technical folks why they shouldn't buy X from brand Y because Z, even if they don't fully understand why - tell them to give you a call, if in doubt...
Unfortunately this simplistic strategy doesn't work in many cases, that's why these victories in court are important.
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/17/432...
Re: New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own
#5Name and shame the companies that use those techniques, then vote with your wallets and never buy their products again. This is a problem that will mostly solve itself, given enough time... Oh and never get tired to tell this to others, less technical folks why they shouldn't buy X from brand Y because Z, even if they don't fully understand why - tell them to give you a call, if in doubt...
While this is a good thing to do, it will probably never be enough. The loss for companies from this is so small, and the potential profits so large, that no company is going to let this affect their behavior. What is ultimately necessary to make a dent in this is, sadly, regulation. Which must in turn come from a greater public awareness of these issues. So that’s what you should be spreading: awareness and advocacy on these issues.
Re: New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own
#6How to get past the paywall?
Re: New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own
#7Name and shame the companies that use those techniques, then vote with your wallets and never buy their products again. This is a problem that will mostly solve itself, given enough time... Oh and never get tired to tell this to others, less technical folks why they shouldn't buy X from brand Y because Z, even if they don't fully understand why - tell them to give you a call, if in doubt...
The number of comments about this article just show you how people just don't care.
Re: New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own
#8How to get past the paywall?
I don't see any paywall, maybe is location-related. Anyway, do a `curl termbin.com/olua | less` and read it freely (1 month lifetime).
Re: New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own
#9Name and shame the companies that use those techniques, then vote with your wallets and never buy their products again. This is a problem that will mostly solve itself, given enough time... Oh and never get tired to tell this to others, less technical folks why they shouldn't buy X from brand Y because Z, even if they don't fully understand why - tell them to give you a call, if in doubt...
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Re: New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own
#10Name and shame the companies that use those techniques, then vote with your wallets and never buy their products again. This is a problem that will mostly solve itself, given enough time... Oh and never get tired to tell this to others, less technical folks why they shouldn't buy X from brand Y because Z, even if they don't fully understand why - tell them to give you a call, if in doubt...
Unfortunately this simplistic strategy doesn't work in many cases, that's why these victories in court are important. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/17/432...
Exactly. The most irritating thing to me these days is Apple's policies regarding running your own code on my iPad, but it's not like any other company is much better about it (even Microsoft is getting back into that game with Win10S, despite the massive court loss it got them back then).