It's sad to see that the current state of the technology field tends to be pro business, not pro users. The users are losing ground, giving up their freedom to use their devices as best they seem.
In many cases, companies still own the devices we buy. Companies have a lot of say on how we can use our devices, and what we can run on them, in many cases having the right to punish users that don't use their devices as envisioned by the company who made it.
Even though illegal behavior must be punished, taking users rights over their devices can't be approved or done in name of cracking on such behavior. User should be able to modify their own devices as they want, and to share how to make such modifications, freely while they are not engaging in any illegal activity.
The problem is that, in several cases, innocent people are being punished because of behavior that isn't illegal. They only engaged on activities that weren't approved by the big businesses, yet users got treated as if they were actually hardcore criminals.
Businesses need to be stopped from doing so, and users protected from such aggressions to their freedoms and right to make use of their property as they see fit. That a certain company doesn't like people that bought their product modifying it for lawful purposes, should not be allowed to stop people from doing so.
All technology should be at the service of the people, and the companies who produce those technologies should have no say how users use such technologies once they are granted ownership.
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