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  1. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/6

    This gives rise to #JayFreeman's perfectly named doctrine of "#FelonyContemptOfBusinessModel," in which it is illegal to use your own property in ways that anger the shareholders of the company that sold it to you:

    pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lea

    Undisciplined by the threat of competition, regulation, or unilateral modification by users, companies are free to enshittify their products. But what does that actually *look like*?

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    #jayfreeman #felonycontemptofbusinessmodel
  2. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/31

    The US government thumbs the scales against you, creating a regime that #JayFreeman aptly dubbed #FelonyContemptOfBusinessModel:

    pluralistic.net/2022/10/23/how

    All kinds of companies have availed themselves of this government-backed superpower. There's #DRM - digital locks, covered by #DMCA1201 - in powered #wheelchairs:

    eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/when

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    #jayfreeman #felonycontemptofbusinessmodel #drm #dmca1201 #wheelchairs