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There are only laws, like the of the , that make writing and distributing those programs a felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine (for a first offense).

That is to say, the War On General Purpose Computing is only incidentally a *technical* fight: it is primarily a *legal* fight.

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Apple uses to lock people into using its , threatening anyone who reverse-engineers its devices to add competing stores with 5 year prison sentences under of the ().

Google's *does* have a facility for "side-loading" apps that aren't in its app store, but the company uses a web of commercial requirements and technological tricks to prevent a competitor from emerging:

theplatformlaw.blog/2023/05/24

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With digital items, Amazon has a *double* lock-in, thanks to (). Under of 1998's (), it's a felony to provide someone with a tool to remove DRM, *even if no one ever uses that tool to infringe copyright*. That means that if Amazon sells you one of my books wrapped in its DRM, you can't play it unless you use an Amazon-authorized player.

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Audible is 's monopoly audiobook platform. It has a death-grip on the audiobook market, commanding more than 90% of genre audiobook sales, and *every single one* of those audiobooks is sold with Amazon's DRM on it. That means that you can't break up with Amazon without throwing away those audiobooks. Under the 1998 , I can't give you a tool to convert my own copyrighted audiobooks to a non-Amazon format.

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Like all DRM, VIN locks are covered by Section 1201 of the (), a 1998 law that criminalizes distributing tools to bypass "access controls," even if you do so for a lawful purpose (say, to fix your own tractor using a part you paid for). Violations of carry a penalty of 5 years in prison and a $500k fine - for a first offense.

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