Among others, the right to explore and fix these devices ourselves.
That current abilities to do so, in the U.S. are arbitrated by the Library of Congress, seems entirely insufficient. Except that it perhaps gained us some temporary rights to do so that corporate lobbyists via Congress would otherwise already have taken away.
This tech has become essential to society. Intellectual property "rights" need to find their limits at a point before they put this essential function at risk. If the original manufacturers can't get this right, and where the underlying chipset technologies are from what strikes me as an oligopoly -- regardless of the number of brands and models they get stuffed into -- then the public should have every right to research, verify, and fix the products, themselves.
Ultimately and hopefully, this also works, financially. If you can't make it work properly, you lose control of your revenue stream, rather than using a government-granted monopoly (IP) and your income on lawyers and lobbyists to coerce people to suffer with your failure.
That current abilities to do so, in the U.S. are arbitrated by the Library of Congress, seems entirely insufficient. Except that it perhaps gained us some temporary rights to do so that corporate lobbyists via Congress would otherwise already have taken away.
This tech has become essential to society. Intellectual property "rights" need to find their limits at a point before they put this essential function at risk. If the original manufacturers can't get this right, and where the underlying chipset technologies are from what strikes me as an oligopoly -- regardless of the number of brands and models they get stuffed into -- then the public should have every right to research, verify, and fix the products, themselves.
Ultimately and hopefully, this also works, financially. If you can't make it work properly, you lose control of your revenue stream, rather than using a government-granted monopoly (IP) and your income on lawyers and lobbyists to coerce people to suffer with your failure.