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> and enabled it

Did they though...? If they did you'd think there'd be documentation of that provided as a part of the service.

The problem with this is that there is no direct comparable parallel. Physical removal is not allowed, and that most agree with. But this is not the same, there was no physical change, only a software lock. You and I would maybe like it to be treated the same, but it isn't yet.

Software licenses are revoked quite frequently. Game console vendors can blacklist serials bricking essential features of a game console, Steam blacklists stolen activation keys, storage providers can "expire" free space from promos that never included a time limit. Porting the law naively would mean all of these are not allowed either.




Did they enable it? Yes. They did. Or it wouldn't have worked. And they wouldn't have been able to disable it.




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