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Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (08 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic “Selling a product that can be remotely, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so.”

This is like some product development version of https://www.hyrumslaw.com -- if it's possible to be exploited, it will eventually be exploited.

We need a catchy name for that concept!

Hyrum's Law

@josh @pluralistic

And the corellary of rule 34, If it's on the internet, there is porn of it.

Why not call your's Harumph's law, whenever you see it happening you are mandated to go "Harumph"?