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And then inevitably somebody will find a way around that. It's a cat-and-mouse game as old as the concept of digital licensing - see the piracy space, where all sorts of uncrackable protections keep getting cracked


but it's a cat and mouse game to effectively disable your hardware because you can't use any of the software you want to use with it?

i feel like simply not playing is the real way to win this game. otherwise facebook still profits


I don't know, I really enjoyed my jailbroken Wii back in the day, so there's definitely precedent for this.




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