Referring to programs that actively resist being backed up: This may be a user's manual, but when it comes to some programs that you buy off the shelf, you're

Referring to programs that actively resist being backed up: This may be a user's manual, but when it comes to some programs that you buy off the shelf, you're more in a position of being used than you are of being a user. Reminds me of the modern "you are the product" adage, and shows user-hostile software was already a thing 40 years ago.