One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen

Re:One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen by TophWells on Sunday February 23, 2014 @08:29PM (#7288621)

>if I own a device, No-one should legally be allowed control over it?

Then tech companies might start leasing out their devices: you technically don't own it, so you're not allowed to do what you want to it.

Not that the Right to Root wouldn't be nice, but the change in attitude has to come first. And we need to somehow convince the likes of Apple that their DRM is bad for business.

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Re:One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen by friendzis on Monday February 24, 2014 @02:43AM (#7289579)

Wasn't that written from a mac/ipad?

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Re:One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen by lifeisstillgood on Monday February 24, 2014 @11:16AM (#7291554)

errrr... yes. My iphone actually. (How could you tell? Or was that a lucky piece of sarcasm)

If the signatories to the US constitution owned slaves, I can use an iPhone while still wanting the Right to Root.

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Re:One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen by lifeisstillgood on Monday February 24, 2014 @02:02AM (#7289483)

if someone leases me a notebook, do they get the right to read what I write in it? seems unlikely.

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