Has a sieve been named after Cory Doctorow? I propose:

Doctorow's Sieve

Given two otherwise equivalent computers: the lesser device is the one which has Felony Contempt of Business Model in place to criminalize using it as a general purpose computer.

#Computing #FelonyContemptOfBusinessModel
#DoctorowsSieve

Beyond that, modifying an app creates liability under copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets, noncompete, nondisclosure and so on. It's what @saurik calls "#FelonyContemptOfBusinessModel":

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

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Apple has many tools at its disposal that Microsoft lacked in the early 2000s. Radical new interpretations of existing copyright, contract, patent and trademark law allows Apple - and other tech giants - to threaten rivals who engage in comcom with both criminal and civil penalties. That's right, you can go to *prison* for comcom these days. No wonder calls this #FelonyContemptOfBusinessModel:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

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This gives rise to #JayFreeman's perfectly named doctrine of "#FelonyContemptOfBusinessModel," in which it is illegal to use your own property in ways that anger the shareholders of the company that sold it to you:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

Undisciplined by the threat of competition, regulation, or unilateral modification by users, companies are free to enshittify their products. But what does that actually *look like*?

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The US government thumbs the scales against you, creating a regime that #JayFreeman aptly dubbed #FelonyContemptOfBusinessModel:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/23/how-to-fix-cars-by-breaking-felony-contempt-of-business-model/

All kinds of companies have availed themselves of this government-backed superpower. There's #DRM - digital locks, covered by #DMCA1201 - in powered #wheelchairs:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/when-drm-comes-your-wheelchair

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The pirates became admirals, and set about creating a "#FelonyContemptOfBusinessModel":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/03/painful-burning-dribble/#law-of-intended-consequences

They changed the rules to ensure that they could "disrupt" anyone they chose, but could themselves mobilize the full might of the US government to prevent anyone from disrupting *them*:

https://locusmag.com/2019/01/cory-doctorow-disruption-for-thee-but-not-for-me/

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When Apple says, "You can't install a third party app store on your phone," what they means is, "it's *illegal* to install that third party app store." It's not a *technical* countermeasure that stands between you and #TechnologicalSelfDetermination, it's a legal doctrine we can call "#FelonyContemptOfBusinessModel":

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

But the mighty US government will not step in to protect a company's business model unless it at least *gestures* towards the technical.

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But when *we* tried to twiddle back, that was "#FelonyContemptOfBusinessModel," and the airlines sued:

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/12/30/airline-sues-man-for-founding-a-cheap-flights-website.html

And sued:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/business/southwest-airlines-lawsuit-prices.html

Platforms don't just hate it when end-users twiddle back - if anything they are even more aggressive when their business-users dare to twiddle.

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