Why console makers can legally brick your game console

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What other industry is allowed to just do this? Its robbery. If I want to buy an Xbox and mod it to hell I should be able to. At most they should be able to disconnect me from their online infrastructure. Not brick my console.

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  • entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Printers

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  • Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pretty sure cars are basically the same now.

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  • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only place I’ve seen it is if you didn’t finish paying for it (like getting a fence replaced at your house and then not paying them will get it torn down)

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You get a lien, not your fence torn down usually. Cant do anything to the property until it’s paid

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  • gnate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tractors. Continued function depends on OTA updates via subscription.

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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  so, chair makers can unchar your chairs??

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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Using unapproved polish is against the tos and we have issued a DMCA (the C is for chair) notice of violation.

    Your chair has been locked.

    If you wish to unlock your chair, go fuck yourself. Pay us for another one.

    Sincerely,

    Go fuck yourself.

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• kadup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you live in a shit hole like the US, yes.

  It’s totally illegal over here.

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• punkcoder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While these kinds of “bricking” clauses haven’t been tested in court, lawyers who spoke to Ars felt they would probably hold up to judicial review.

  This is laughable at best, would 100% never go to court. The cost of losing would destroy so many models… and defending in it in the light of real consequences is going to make them popular… Ask the RIAA how suing customers made them look.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Threat? Have you not seen Nintendo suing their customers the last 4 decades or so?

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• Dequei@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Your game console”

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• watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That would be the last console I ever bought.

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• SW42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because capitalism and Greed. You pay money for some piece of hardware and expect to own it? In what world are you living?

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• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Assuming this article is talking about the USA? This doesn’t sound like the kind of thing that would fly anywhere with half-decent consumer protection laws.

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  God we are still going to Milk this story 2 weeks later?

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• ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I will just not purchase an console anymore, don’t need one anyway due to have a good PC.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Answer (without even needing to read the article): they can’t legally brick your console, but we live in an oligarchy that refuses to enforce the law against the powerful.

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