Re:Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
by cherioo on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @03:14PM
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Does it not depend on what the feature is?
Is it theft if a company stops supporting TLS 1.0 clients that were previously supported?
What about upgrading service to only support a new form of authentication, breaking some clients?
What if the new authentication can only be done by locked down official client?
What if the company never advertised support through third party clients?
Re:Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
by brookst on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:59PM
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Wait so if a third party took away a feature you use, would that be “theft”? Like if your ISP is down when you want to watch a movie?
It’s wrong for sure, but I’m vicariously embarrassed for those who want to define everything they don’t like as “terrorism” or “theft” or whatever, strictly because it sounds so dramatic and casts the wrongdoers as not just wrong, but evil.
It’s old, it’s tired, it doesn’t convince anyone.
Simple “failure to adhere to terms of sale” is sufficient, and doesn’t have the baggage of being false.
It is irrelevant whether the thing or feature you took away is implemented in hardware or software. Notably it is often hardware functionality but the thief uses software to restrict it.
You could perhaps argue that another property crime might better describe it such as criminal mischief or in some cases fraud. But in any case it is a crime against someone else's property.