so i see a lot of posts about the nomenclature of democracy and its machinations of change in favour of elites but i think theres something people are missing h

so i see a lot of posts about the nomenclature of democracy and its machinations of change in favour of elites but i think theres something people are missing here. the amended text is blind and harmful not to the end user in the near term, but to the corporate entity itself in the longterm. as technologies like 3d printing and machining advance, and as the end users equipment becomes evermore cumbersome to engage and repair, it is a foregone conclusion that hackers can and will circumvent, override, and make obsolete the arbitrary controls and restrictions that forbid reasonable owners from performing repair and maintenance outside the confines of a rent-seeker. The sheer volume of people and groups this inconveniences makes this inevitable. manufacturers had their chance to meet on common ground, to re-evaluate their profit strategies and predatory practices, and in the end they fell back on the simplest laurels and chose to poison the legislative assuming this was an absolute control. You cannot stop hackers by doubling down on the very policies they seek to amend, you can only slow them for a time and in the process discourage and infuriate your paying customers. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo could give a doctoral lecture on this, if agricultural farm equipment manufacturers cared to listen.