Why console makers can legally brick your game console
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so, chair makers can unchair your chairs??
wrote on 23 May 2025, 19:12 last edited byUsing unapproved polish is against the tos and we have issued a DMCA (the C is for chair) notice of violation.
Your chair has been locked.
If you wish to unlock your chair, go fuck yourself.
Pay us for another one.Sincerely,
Go fuck yourself.
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What other industry is allowed to just do this? Its robbery. If I want to buy an Xbox and mod it to hell I should be able to. At most they should be able to disconnect me from their online infrastructure. Not brick my console.
wrote on 23 May 2025, 19:28 last edited byThe only place I've seen it is if you didn't finish paying for it (like getting a fence replaced at your house and then not paying them will get it torn down)
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What other industry is allowed to just do this? Its robbery. If I want to buy an Xbox and mod it to hell I should be able to. At most they should be able to disconnect me from their online infrastructure. Not brick my console.
wrote on 23 May 2025, 20:24 last edited byPretty sure cars are basically the same now.
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 23 May 2025, 20:46 last edited by
God we are still going to Milk this story 2 weeks later?
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What other industry is allowed to just do this? Its robbery. If I want to buy an Xbox and mod it to hell I should be able to. At most they should be able to disconnect me from their online infrastructure. Not brick my console.
wrote on 23 May 2025, 21:01 last edited byPrinters
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 23 May 2025, 21:27 last edited by
While these kinds of "bricking" clauses haven't been tested in court, lawyers who spoke to Ars felt they would probably hold up to judicial review.
This is laughable at best, would 100% never go to court. The cost of losing would destroy so
many models… and defending in it in the light of real consequences is going to make them popular… Ask the RIAA how suing customers made them look.The threat of doing it is way more powerful.
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what industry isn't allowed to do this?
wrote on 23 May 2025, 21:30 last edited byFurniture? Pretty sure they can't come into my house to cut the feet off my tables, anyway.
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Furniture? Pretty sure they can't come into my house to cut the feet off my tables, anyway.
wrote on 23 May 2025, 22:02 last edited bythey can brick your "smart" table, turning it into just wood, just as they can brick your switch, turning it into... a brick
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they can brick your "smart" table, turning it into just wood, just as they can brick your switch, turning it into... a brick
wrote on 23 May 2025, 22:10 last edited bySounds like we have a lot of work to do for freedom of ownership.
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wrote on 23 May 2025, 22:47 last edited by
they can't brick our movie. our movies are dumb anyways.
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 23 May 2025, 23:03 last edited by
Assuming this article is talking about the USA? This doesn't sound like the kind of thing that would fly anywhere with half-decent consumer protection laws.
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 23 May 2025, 23:26 last edited by
If you live in a shit hole like the US, yes.
It's totally illegal over here.
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The only place I've seen it is if you didn't finish paying for it (like getting a fence replaced at your house and then not paying them will get it torn down)
wrote on 24 May 2025, 00:19 last edited byYou get a lien, not your fence torn down usually. Cant do anything to the property until it's paid
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wrote on 24 May 2025, 00:19 last edited by thermal_shock@lemmy.world
Throw that brick through their window
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 24 May 2025, 07:42 last edited by
Because capitalism and Greed. You pay money for some piece of hardware and expect to own it? In what world are you living?
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While these kinds of "bricking" clauses haven't been tested in court, lawyers who spoke to Ars felt they would probably hold up to judicial review.
This is laughable at best, would 100% never go to court. The cost of losing would destroy so
many models… and defending in it in the light of real consequences is going to make them popular… Ask the RIAA how suing customers made them look.The threat of doing it is way more powerful.
wrote on 24 May 2025, 10:01 last edited byThreat? Have you not seen Nintendo suing their customers the last 4 decades or so?
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 25 May 2025, 20:13 last edited by
I will just not purchase an console anymore, don’t need one anyway due to have a good PC.
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What other industry is allowed to just do this? Its robbery. If I want to buy an Xbox and mod it to hell I should be able to. At most they should be able to disconnect me from their online infrastructure. Not brick my console.
wrote on 26 May 2025, 14:20 last edited byTractors. Continued function depends on OTA updates via subscription.
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 27 May 2025, 14:23 last edited by grue@lemmy.world
Answer (without even needing to read the article): they can’t legally brick your console, but we live in an oligarchy that refuses to enforce the law against the powerful.