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ekiru on Jan 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sony uses DMCA to silence speech that reveals its ...

Or someone selling you an operating system and telling you you can only install it on hardware purchased from them. These things are far from uncommon in technology. (I will refrain from mentioning the other example that came to mind because I don't wish to target a specific company to the exclusion of others, since such practices are widespread.)

reemrevnivek on Jan 20, 2011 | [–]

> Or someone selling you an operating system and telling you you can only install it on hardware purchased from them.

How ridiculous!

Sent from my Macbook Pro

CrLf on Jan 20, 2011 | [–]

The difference there is that software isn't sold, it's licensed. Hardware on the other hand is a physical object which is bought.

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