- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
Do you actually own anything digital?::From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no
Do you actually own anything digital?::From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no
You bought it but you don’t own it. The companies that made them can always decide to reach through the internet and rearrange them better to their liking
what are they gonna do? shut down my CPU or something using the internet?
I don’t think I ever heard of it happening to a computer, but it did happen to printers: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-10755577/Printers-remotely-disabled-customer-cancels-ink-subscription.html
Custom Android ROM? Linux? That’s just not true. Especially considering entirely FOSS devices i.e. System76.