I look at this differently. I see an intrusive restriction on the private use of a general purpose tool, and ask: is this intrusion necessary? Do restrictions

I look at this differently. I see an intrusive restriction on the private use of a general purpose tool, and ask: is this intrusion necessary? Do restrictions like this even serve as a road bump for real counterfeiting operations? Or do they exist to create a sense of ubiquitous surveillance? To lower the general public’s baseline expectations for autonomy and privacy? To drop another anchor that can be used to justify unrelated intrusions in the future?