[AnonCoward4]

> I have no idea why modding a microwave at a third-party service center would be illegal.

If you remove the source of revenue for a given product without consent of the manufacturer/developer of that product and do this in a professional fashion, you are inflicting severe damage to that manufacturer/developer of a product.

The reason why digital problems are not easily transferred to the real world or back is in this example, that it costs the author of that mod zero time to do it for all people at once (developing time is fixed) and is accessible nearly instantly from everywhere. This is certainly not true for the microwave example.

edit: replace owner with manufacturer/developer (of that product)

[ajsnigrutin]

So if a refill a printer cartridge (a revenue source), that's illegal?

Clearly it's not: https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/250050-supreme-court...