- manufacturers can impose artificial limitations on their products; for example: - HIP bricking customers’ printers if they stop paying for the “instant ink” program. - tesla pushing an update to temporarily increase battery life during natural disasters – meaning the physical battery of these cars could have increased capacity, but software restricts it to create different price points. - google bricking sensors on a product it acquired. - (see [[Warzel, Charlie - 2023 - My Printer is Extorting Me]]) - this is user-hostile; it’s antithetical to the convenience promised by products that are connected to the internet. you can’t use these products the way you want to. - perpetual [[everything is a subscription|digital subscriptions]] are artificially limiting access; do you own anything?