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> It's also no physical items being taken or damaged

So if I scramble the firmware on your phone and brick it, you don't consider that damaged?

> LoJack

... works in tandem with police, hardly 'very analagous'.

> It happens with copy protection on software.

The user should have been warned that applying the update would brick the detected non-original phone. It shouldn't have just silently fucked the user over. It's bad ethics and also bad PR. Fucking over a user acting in good faith is poor form ethically.