Intellectual property laws are what creates this discontinuity - your CPU runs licensed code that you don't own so it makes sense to develop technologies to ena

Intellectual property laws are what creates this discontinuity - your CPU runs licensed code that you don't own so it makes sense to develop technologies to enable stuff you don't own to live in the CPU but deny you access to it. There's a lot of overextensions of the concept of IP that of course make sense to lawyers, judges, and people who have high net worth derived from leveraging this artifice, but the whole thing probably should be reformed at some point if anyone cares about things other than extending the concept of ownership to ideas. For example, I'm still not clear how I can simultaneously own a media product, like a VCR tape or CD, and not have a "license" from the studio (a non-governmental entity) to publicly exhibit it.