You can't outlaw stupid. It would be nice if things like this that were obviously "anti-competitive" were treated as such though. Maybe a nice exception for bypassing anti-competitive DRM carved out specifically in the DMCA, or something like that.
There's no DRM though? This just looks like the simplest thing the engineers could have done - the only extra change they could have made is not requiring a cassette be present, I guess.
Precisely. Congress should get off their butts and decide what kind of washing machine America needs. I hate having to choose between glossy black and matte black finishes. Why won't Chuck Schumer help me?
