- Manufactures can impose “artificial limitations” on their products, especially when they live [[{2.1b1a1} we’re living on the internet of shit|on the internet of shit]]. Some examples of artificial limiting include (from [[Warzel, Charlie - 2023 - My Printer is Extorting Me|Charlie Warzel]]): - HP bricking customer’s printers — even when they have ink — if that customer stops paying for the Instant Ink program. - Tesla pushing an update during Hurricane Irma that temporarily increased battery life. This means that the physical battery of these cars *could* have increased capacity, but Tesla, instead, creates a software restriction to create two price points for customers. - Google bricking sensors on a product it acquired. - This creates a user-hostile business model that is antithetical to the convenience promised by products that are connected to the internet. You cannot use these products the way you want to, and [[{2.1b} we accumulate so much, but we own very little|you technically don’t own them at all]]. - ([[{2.1b1} digital subscriptions are blurring the lines of ownership]] is an artificial limitation)