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Re:Renting Horsepower by feanaro on Thursday May 04, 2023 @07:53PM (#35823672)
Pitchforks? Seriously though, your comment is way too defeatist. Legislature has worked for centuries for this problem. Imperfectly, but don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

But if all else fails, giant corporations are eventually going to get the good ol' pitchforks up their butt.

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Re:Renting Horsepower by lumb63 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:12PM (#35823828)
To the contrary, I think settling for a mechanism that (maybe) cleans up the damage after it’s done is defeatist.
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Re:Renting Horsepower by NineStarPoint on Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:49PM (#35824047)
This isn’t a case where you have to wait until after the damage is done though. Making a blanket regulation of “you can’t sell a physical good that has its capabilities artificially limited to create price brackets”, or something similar, would work in advance of people trying to sell such products in the US market.
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Re:Renting Horsepower by feanaro on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:06PM (#35924042)
I'm not saying it's good, I'm just saying it is to be expected.
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