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Refrigerators have DRM on them, To force you to buy $50 water filters or it won't dispense water (www.youtube.com)
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[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

During the "chip shortage" time a printer company (Canon maybe) had to tell users how to crack their DRM because they couldn't source the chips used to vendor lock the ink cartidges.