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On the other hand, a new firmware for my recent Brother printer added a bunch of cloud-based features that are pretty cool (scan to dropbox, etc). When done well, this sort of thing is great.

> I don’t think this stuff stops without legislation

I agree, but sadly I expect it would quickly boil down to “click OK to waive all your rights, which you really want in order to make the device actually do what you bought it for”.




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