The FTC has been asked to crack down on 'software tethering,' a practice that renders perfectly good products totally useless.
The letter calls out a number of products whose functionalities have been limited - or eliminated altogether - by this practice.
Manufacturers increasingly use software to lock us into only using our tech in ways that just-so-happen to generate the most profits for them.
A lack of clarity and enforcement has led to an ecosystem where consumers cannot reliably count on the connected products they buy to last.
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