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by agent008t 1430 days ago
The fact that 'they' can deactivate anything in an item you own is dystopian in its own right. In general, items need to be usable even after their manufacturer goes out of business and stops supporting them, which seems to be less and less often the case.

People used to laugh at Stallman, but increasingly it seems like he was actually a prophet of what's to come.