It's sad only companies are pushing laws to make sharing among users a lot more difficult, in some cases illegal.
For the looks of it, the awful truth is that they don't seem to understand that people want to be able to share what they love with others. And they'll always find a way to circumvent any measure, or law, that is on their way to do so.
Not only that, in order to pass such laws users stand to lose control over their own property. Companies who produce and market many of the things we use on daily basis in order to share with others, are willing to severely limit what we can do on with what we buy and how we can do things on them.
They want to have control over they products, even after we bought it. The want to make sure that you use it the way they think it's supposed to be used, and that you can't share it or give it away without them getting some kind of payment. In some cases, they even oppose you selling to someone else after you are done with it.
It seems that they can't stand having outside people making modifications to their product make it more suitable to their needs, or just to see what can be done with it. Not to mention that they really dislike users making a third party market place where they can exchange parts and accessories that aren't officially sanctioned.
That's a part of the ecosystem that grows around the product as it becomes more popular, and more people buy it. They want to make it look, and work, according to their needs and tastes. For many users, myself included, is a big turnoff when they aren't allowed to personalize their things to their hearths content.
Why on earth can't they do so? After all, it should be their choice to do so.
It's in everyone's best interest that companies open up their product lines, and let it be personalized by their users as they choose, and to the level they choose to.
After all, we do pay for them.
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