The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.
Inkjet printers were always a sleazy business, but once these printers got directly connected to the internet, companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer
Now, this scam wouldn't work if you could just put things back the way they were before the "update," which is where the DRM comes in.
A thicket of IP laws make reverse-engineering DRM-encumbered products into a felony.
Combine always-on network access with indiscriminate criminalization of user modification, and the enshittification will follow, as surely as night follows day.
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/
Chuck Darwin /
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2023-12-09 17:10:53
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