Yeah, but if they want to &quot;sell&quot; me a widget, I should be able to behave in the assumption that I then own it and can do whatever I like with it.<p>If I buy an IKEA table, and choose to take it apart and assemble it differently, I&#x27;m not going to expect the police to come knocking at my door saying &quot;IKEA says you can&#x27;t do that.&quot;<p>If they want to retain ownership and control over &quot;their&quot; widget, that&#x27;s fine - I&#x27;m happy enough to pay Apple something less than half of what I used to pay for a physical CD - but if you put a &quot;thing&quot; on a shelf in a store, and I can pick it up and hand over some cash and walk out with it, there&#x27;s no assumption that the manufacturer has any more legal right to tell me what I can and can&#x27;t do with it when I get it home (there may be _other_ interested parties, if I turned a TIG welder into a homebuilt Taser, the police might come after me themselves, but not on behalf of the manufacturer.)<p>I&#x27;m not saying they can&#x27;t fo it. But I am saying they shouldn&#x27;t be allowed to call that &quot;selling a TIG welder&quot;. Because it&#x27;s not what people usually think it means.