Google reaches into customers’ homes and bricks their gadgets
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Revolv is a home automation hub that Google acquired 17 months ago ; yesterday, Google announced that as of May 15, it will killswitch all the Revolvs in the field and render them inert. Section 1201 of the DMCA — the law that prohibits breaking DRM — means that anyone who tries to make a third-party OS for Revolv faces felony charges and up to 5 years in prison. Revolv is apparently being killswitched because it doesn’t fit in with Google’s plan for Nest, the other home automation system it (...)
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