There’s a lot of this “I bought it but it’s not mine” going on. Computers, phones, farm tractors… I did this little art project trying to express that. A locked dictionary. Title: Hard Bound, Bound Hard.

It’s called anti-circumvention law and is typically forced into trade agreements by America to allow corporations to enforce IP protection in foreign countries.

Cory Doctorow’s recent talk on it was very informative and he notes how eliminating those laws can be a way for countries to eed dependance on US tech.