i hate that we keep having to revisit this idea... if you buy something, it is your property. if you have the tools and knowhow to fix it, you should damn well be allowed to. it is quite literally a monopoly for companies to essentially hold parts for ransom just because of some BS excuse that the consumers don't know enough to do it themselves. even if the excuse is about modding their things in such a way as to get around built in limits, again it is their property...

the problem here is that the people making decisions on matters like these are totally uneducated in the matters. politicians are too ald and out of touch so when a big corporation tells them they know better (or realistically just pays them off) they buy it no questions asked.