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Even as an owner, you should not be able to arbitrarily restrict the rights of future owners.

>>adastr+(OP)
Unfortunately the existence of things like efuses and OTP makes that very difficult.

>>adastr+(OP)
No more hole sawing my old hard drives for me, lest I restrict rights of future owners to use the drives as storage devices.

>>ohyout+84
Well they'd still have the right, just not the ability (this is actually a distinction US courts have made regarding arbitration clauses and legal recourse).

>>ohyout+84
Unless you got it to saw itself via administrator access you've drifted off the intent of this conversation.