Thanks to Sony's awful choices, Zaslav can break into your house, steal your movies - and he doesn't even have to leave a $20 on your table.
The point here - the point I made 20 years ago to Chris - is that *this is the foreseeable, inevitable result* of designing devices for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades. Anyone who was paying attention should have figured that out in the GW Bush administration. Anyone who does this *today*? Absolute flaming garbage.
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