All the way back in 1998, when the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was being rammed through, we warned the world that this would be the result -- that the law which prohibits circumvention of "access control technology" in things you own would ultimately mean that you no longer actually owned the devices you purchased.

We were derided and mocked and accused of being hysterical, of using the "slippery slope" fallacy.

Whelp, that slope was pretty damn slippery after all, wasn't it.