Why console makers can legally brick your game console
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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.
Threat? Have you not seen Nintendo suing their customers the last 4 decades or so?
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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.
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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.
