Hopefully, such terms would violate the above law andnoyt hold up against it.
Is it still sabotage if the only thing they have sold is a license to use their product not the product itself. That is still their property.
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 week ago
At least in EU the manufacturer can’t revoke licenses on sold physical products with no cause (can’t expire before EOL either) and can’t remove advertised functionality. If any feature is conditional or temporary it has to be disclosed before sale.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
yes. and no its not their property.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I’m no law expert, but as far as i know, there were laready similiar cases. Reasoning (german law): Software required to run the product is not “licensed to use” but part of the product, which was bought, belongs the user and not the company. Remotely making the device unusable would indeed violate that term.