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What's the point of that? We do the same thing in software all the time. You get basic functionality for one price, and pay for a key to unlock extra features. Why should hardware be any different? So the law would somehow require any feature on a hardware product to have some physical difference and not be purely a software limitation? What is the advantage of that? Just increases cost to the manufacturer (which will get passed down), then also precludes any possibility of upgrades by purchasing a software patch.



It should be clearly communicated and never be misleading.


What's misleading? You get the functionality you pay for. The fact that software controls that is an implementation detail.


As mr_toad says, the software is essentially rented.

This means I'm not buying but renting, which is not how it is advertised.




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