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Perhaps one of the most egregious is the Amazon Halo Rise, a $140 smart alarm clock and sleep tracker, which according to PIRG lasted for less than a year before Amazon pulled the plug on the cloud service the device depended on.
That’s pretty rough.
But then again we have MS trying to brick 400 million PC (as the article does point out.
Maybe a more general law instead of don’t-kill-my-games would be better. Something like “Services sold with the product are part of the product and, upon termination, need to be partly reimbursed” to provide an incentive (letting server run cheaper than reimbursement) to not sell paperweight-on-arrival.
