“If the ability [to brick a console] is there, someone will want to ‘see how it goes.'”…
  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Legally? Naw it won’t hold up in court.

    George Lucas doesn’t have the right to come into my house and smash my VHS copies of the original trilogy pre-special edition.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    “Although users own the hardware, the software that’s needed to run it is subject to a license agreement,” attorney Jon Loiterman told Ars. “If you violate the license terms, Nintendo has the right to revoke your access to that software. It’s less common for software makers to revoke access to software in a way that disables hardware you bought from them, but the principle is the same.”

    • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      i guess that sort of makes sense, like if you’re hacking the thing to install your own software, Nintendo says “have fun outside but you can’t come back to our garden”.

      But it also doesn’t because Nintendo has the power to remove functionality that I already paid them for. Even if I tinker with my device, why does that mean that I can never go back to the stock Switch experience that I paid for?

    • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      That’s a very different privilege, one that is in direct contradiction to the consumer’s right to repair