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> Software is almost always licensed, not sold/owned.

Everything comes with software or anti-consumer legalese these days, and I could argue that one should be allowed to modify a local copy of one's software despite a license, but you know what? I don't care. These practices are a direct attack on consumer control and autonomy, and the legal fig-leaf of "licensed" doesn't change this.

You can let them keep chipping away at what rights we have left, or you can fight back. But don't use mere legality as some kind of justification for these practices, or, worse, as a reason to not resist them.