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Originally Posted by teh603
Its not moronic, its surprisingly capitalistic. After all, we're in a system where the only thing that matters is the C-level executives' greed, and how many politicians they can buy off to keep the masses down and ignorant.
Anyway, what they're doing is like that car company (Scion?) that put tamper sensors in their cars' engines so any "unauthorized" activity under the hood would make the car unable to start. Naturally, unauthorized activities include changing the oil and replacing the battery and plug wires- which are all things you're normally able to do in your driveway. Or how Windows 8 is likely to be non user serviceable; to install updates, the Check Computer light comes on and you have to pay $100 to Geek Squad for an OS ROM flash.
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You also have to see the other side of the coin. We sell machinery and quite often the customers try to have some third rate hack repair the electronic control elements. They substitute parts with the wrong specs, or do a lot of other stupid things. After that doesn't work people come back to us and complain about problems they are having and expect us to take care of it. And unlike for consumer products you depend on repeat business and cannot just tell them "forget it, just buy a new one".
So I can at least feel some sympathy with some attempts to prevent "unauthorized" access for physical goods. It often means a lot of additional service costs that you cannot charge for.