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c0lo [soylentnews.org] writes:

EFF runs a piece [eff.org] on the ownership of one's electronic devices, in this case the popular Phantom drones (one of which crashed into the White House yard last week):

As the White House reacted to the drone crash with a call for more regulation, the manufacturer of the downed quadcopter announced it would push a firmware update to all its units in the field, permanently preventing those drones from taking off or flying within 25km of downtown Washington DC.

Now, while TFA goes on and on with the various examples on "Who Really Owns Your Drones?", I stopped at the thought of: "Actually, what exactly is the problem the Phantom model's manufacturer is trying to solve? And why it feels compelled to do it?"

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