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Why do you not just own a cheap flip phone and an ipod then? Ownership is something of a nebulous concept in the digital era - copyright and licensing is far m
by flatline 11y ago
Why do you not just own a cheap flip phone and an ipod then?
Ownership is something of a nebulous concept in the digital era - copyright and licensing is far more important. You may own the device outright, but that's largely immaterial. The value of the device is in its access to the network and licensed content - music, ebooks, GPS, traffic, internet, texting, fb, chat, etc. Aside from a platform to consume content and access the network, the physical device itself offers little more than a camera.
- wolfgke 11y ago> Why do you not just own a cheap flip phone and an ipod then? > Ownership is something of a nebulous concept in the digital era Richard Stallman told us that any piece of software that you cannot modify but someone else can has to be considered as malware. In this sense about any mobile phone must be considered as malicious, since there is (besides OsmocomBB, for which using is of dubious legality) no free baseband processor. Even more imporatant mobile phones are location tracking and bugging devices with built-in telephony functions. Thus it is no question why owning a mobile phone is a very bad idea in general (I know very few applications of mobile phones that justify these large flaws).