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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Now, now. No need to go into silly hyperbole.
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Actually, I'm not. Those sorts of things are exactly what the government granted consumer rights surrounding terms and conditions in user agreements are meant to address. Agreeing to give up your legal rights, including signing yourself into slavery, are specific examples that those consumer rights were originally meant to protect.
Companies are not supposed to be allowed to place restrictions on what you do with a physical product after you own it. They are also specifically not allowed to put things in usage agreements that violate existing law or that require a consumer to give up their rights.
Without those consumer rights that you claim the government should stay out of, companies would be able to do exactly that.
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I think they can put what ever limitations on the products usage in their agreement that they want in terms of what things void the warranty, what can get you banned from that companies online network, what the DRM limits are on the the digital content you can buy through that product etc.
It's their product and they can define those policies largely as they see fit IMO. And consumers can choose to buy the product or not based on those policies.
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Luckily, the law disagrees with you.