“Think about it – If you can’t fix it, mod it, or sell it without someone else’s permission… Did you ever really own it?
“Every example we’ve seen so far points to the same reality: the balance of power has shifted. You pay for the device or software, but they decide how it works, what it can do, and how long it will last.
“This isn’t just inconvenient – it’s a slow erosion of freedom and control.”
From “The Death of Ownership: Why Your Tech Isn’t Really Yours Anymore” by Mohib Ur Rehman (SK Nexus, Substack)
https://open.substack.com/pub/sknexus/p/the-death-of-ownership-in-tech
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In fairness people like Louis Rossmann, and the “right to repair” movement, as well as “stop killing games” have been calling out this behavior for a long time. They’ve even had some moderate success, with one of the problems being that even when laws are passed, there is no will to actually enforce them.
Still, there’s not enough awareness of the problem outside of those spheres, and problematically, there is absolutely no awareness amongst younger people, who are the ones most affected by this. Many of them have never encountered the concept of true digital or hardware ownership, since the DMCA became law in 1998.
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