Comment on Judge denies HP's request to dismiss printer lockdown suiit
WilliamTheWicked@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This and almost every other tech subscription style “service” are one of the most maddening things to come out of the tech sector. The need for profit is absolutely out of control.
sj_zero 1 year ago
The way that these companies use intellectual property law to secure for themselves a property right to something that someone else purchased from them ought to be highly illegal.
I believe there was a supreme Court case I better garage door opener, and the company that made the garage doors was trying to sue because they didn't want anyone using anything but their garage door opener. I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that the supreme Court in that case explicitly stated that the purpose of the dmca is not to provide companies with a property right to something that people have already purchased.
Technology companies just went ahead and did it anyway.