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Re:If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing by edwinjm on Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:25AM (#38580968)
> Selling a product that can be remotely, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so. The fact that there are no penalties for doing so...

At least in Europe, a company can't just remove features from a device.

If a product doesn't do what you can reasonably expect, this is considered fraud and you can go back to the store and demand compensation.

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Re:If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing by isbvhodnvemrwvn on Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:40AM (#38581068)
The field of interpretation for "can reasonably expect" is very wide though, how many devices you own are still receiving security updates?
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