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minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months ago my actual property rights as owner of the machine Very poor choice of words
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoWhy? Do you think I’m not the one who owns my computer? Do you think computers aren’t property? Defend your position; explain what you mean.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoMy point is companies would love if you didn’t own your own computer and I wouldn’t be surprised if they got some legislation through to let them license it that way.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoHow is accurately framing their tyrannical feudalistic scheming a poor choice of words on my part?
minus-square🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThen I guess they need to start providing the hardware for free, because if I paid for it…it’s MINE and I can do what I want with it.
minus-squarerichmondez@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoTell that to console manufacturers. Or Apple for that matter.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoYour ISP already leases your modem.
minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThen clearly you are leasing it, not owning it. If your ISP allows it, as many do, you could use your own modem, and then it is indeed yours.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months ago If your ISP allows it, as many do It really ought to be all of them. I mean, c’mon, we already decided this decades ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_decision
Very poor choice of words
Why? Do you think I’m not the one who owns my computer? Do you think computers aren’t property? Defend your position; explain what you mean.
My point is companies would love if you didn’t own your own computer and I wouldn’t be surprised if they got some legislation through to let them license it that way.
How is accurately framing their tyrannical feudalistic scheming a poor choice of words on my part?
Then I guess they need to start providing the hardware for free, because if I paid for it…it’s MINE and I can do what I want with it.
Tell that to console manufacturers. Or Apple for that matter.
Your ISP already leases your modem.
Then clearly you are leasing it, not owning it. If your ISP allows it, as many do, you could use your own modem, and then it is indeed yours.
It really ought to be all of them. I mean, c’mon, we already decided this decades ago!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_decision