[anfilt]

I have talked about this before. The issue goes further in my opinion and starts to effect property rights themselves. In particular locked down hardware starts to effect the owners right of exclusion. The right of exclusion loosely is the right include or exclude something from/usesing some property. When the hardware is locked down the owner can know longer solely make those decisions. Instead in the instance of like an iDevice Apple makes those choices instead of the owner by only allowed code they have signed or signatures they allow.

An other post I have posted regarding this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39349288

[medhir]

thanks for sharing. the loss of property rights is an aspect I hadn’t considered… would be great to brainstorm further with an actual lawyer on these topics

[anfilt]

I recommend reading that paper I posted in the other comment. It underscores how important the right of exclusion is.

[medhir]

will do, thank you!