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Wow this is by far the best solution to this pervasive problem I've seen, no irony. This way, you don't need legislators go into technical and domain specific detail. Producers are incentivized to provide optional updates or "downgrades" if necessary, and if they shut their cloud services off and brick the device, people have a right to return it. Additionally, it can't be abused by customers if the company acts well.

However, we still need to tackle the subscription issue, I.e. That manufacturers can hide behind "you didn't renew the subscription for this printer/treadmill so now we brick it". Any ideas?



You won't need legislators, but you will have to make your case to whoever is manning the returns department at Walmart.


You misinterpreted. Of course you still need a judiciary process. But you’ll won it because the law would clearly be on your side.

Still hard to prove your case, but no company will take the risk because they could have thousands of customers ready to prove they have been abused.




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