Company Bricks User's Software After He Posts a Negative Review

Posted by orf on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @06:22PM
from the techdirt.com dept.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161220/12411836320/company-bricks-users-software-after-he-posts-negative-review.shtml?

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Re:Company Bricks User's Software After He Posts a Negative ... by lightlyused on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @06:32PM (#13314314)

I posted this 18 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13196136

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Re:Company Bricks User's Software After He Posts a Negative ... by orf on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @07:05PM (#13314499)

I re-submitted this because I felt there was more discussion to be had. More information has come to light since then as well.

Here is the megathread on the Ham radio subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/5jf4i2/ham_ra...

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Re:Company Bricks User's Software After He Posts a Negative ... by lightlyused on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:15PM (#13322622)

Yep, see my latest post.

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Re:Company Bricks User's Software After He Posts a Negative ... by forumSzliding on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:26AM (#13316366)

Brick is just the wrong word for software.

What complete nonsense. The analogy is all wrong.

They "voided" or "invalidated" a licence and "disabled" software, remotely.

Nothing got bricked. Software is never bricked. Nothing is permanent in software, and furthermore software does not resemble a brick.

HRD is being a little self-important by proclaiming they have bricked anything. Clearly they believe they are much more powerful than they really are.

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