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I support jail time for cases like this, but with mandatory physical consequences (like a daily beating with a stick). Since that is kind of unrealistic (sadly)

I support jail time for cases like this, but with mandatory physical consequences (like a daily beating with a stick). Since that is kind of unrealistic (sadly), here's a more raelistic idea: In case a company goes bankrupt and bricks its cloud-dependent products, I as the (now a defunct) product owner must become a co-owner of the company. By extension when the company holds licenses for software (e.g., QT), those licenses would transfer to me as well. This would grant me the right to receive a copy of the source code and build it myself. With access to source code I (and everyone) can easily change any hardcoded dns name. And even without changing it, everyone can run a pi-hole, why not add a special case for their domain to point to my server? (I don't use pi-hole but i guess it have that option)

tivert 2y ago
> I support jail time for cases like this, but with mandatory physical consequences (like a daily beating with a stick). I hear you, but I think corporate dissolution is the one case where no one can really expect a device to remain supported, so punishing that will do no good. Punishment only makes sense when you have an ongoing viable business that drops support for no good reason (like the Spotify Car thing). IMHO, for dissolution, it makes more sense to require open-sourcing all device and server code if there's no entity willing to take on support. For an ongoing business, there should be some onerous punishment if they decide brick a connected device too early (e.g before 5 or 7 years after the last version sold), and if they decide brick it later they need to open source the related code.
Muromec 2y ago
It's like DORA, but enforcement arm is outsourced to Singapore?