- Digital locks – like hat prevents you from using a different messaging app on Facebook, or from installing apps not in the App Store on an iPhone – are easy to break. - But section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it a felony to remove a digital lock. - These locks aren’t there to be a technical barrier – or because there *is* a technical barrier. They are there so that users and developers can be sued for removing it and using the product in a way it wasn’t “intended”. - This helps them increase [[tech gets big through network effects and stays big because of high switching costs|switching costs]]. - This is incredibly cheap for companies to do, and then if someone uses a product the way the company doesn’t like, they know the government will step in. > “It does not matter if anyone’s copyright is violated. It does not matter if *any* right is violated. The mere act of providing a tool to remove the lock – no matter how benign and beneficial the purpose – triggers criminal and civil liability for your commercial rivals.” (pg. 68) - [[historically buying something made it yours to use how you saw fit]] - [[{2.1b} we accumulate so much, but we own very little]] and [[{2.1b1a1} we’re living on the internet of shit]].