Miller is free to segment the market however it wants, but I don&#x27;t agree that altering the welder that I own should be a federal crime.<p>We&#x27;re changing the very definition of property here to support some company&#x27;s price discrimination scheme.<p>&gt; Why force them to do that, exactly? IE what grand purpose does it serve?<p>Without the DMCA, Miller could decide that their DRM is sufficient allowing that they can&#x27;t legally prevent people from bypassing it. Or they could decide to ship different programming in different products. The grand purpose, though, is upholding the notion that when I own a thing that means I am free to do I want with it.