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Originally Posted by OnTheFritz
This is goofy. Companies make proprietary equipment locked to their service all the time. Now cell phone companies are doing it - big deal. You have a choice when you choose a provider. So, are you suddenly mad that you can't take your Directv DVR or your Dish DVR or your AT&T Uverse DVR and make them work with other service providers? No? Same thing. Not saying we don't have the government trying to put restrictions on us, but this is a silly argument.
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There is most definitely a grey area here when it comes to proprietary electronics designed for media and communications. For instance when Sony came out with their PlayStation 3 it had a number of features that it no longer has. The most notable was the PS3's support of Linux which was removed in subsequent (required) OS updates. Most agree it is one thing for a device to not support something and in fact attempt to make it illegal for the end user to attempt to add it (even though many think this in itself is bad enough) but quite another for a company to sell you something and retroactively eliminate features. This would be like purchasing a car and taking it in for an oil change 6 months later and finding they removed your car stereo and replaced it with an inferior model that doesn't even have a CD player.
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