On: Renault ships a brickable car with battery DRM tha...

[Karunamon]

There's a real and fundamental gap between "physically unable to run" and "physically able to run, but blocked from doing so by someone else's actions".

[mikeash → Karunamon]

If gasoline is available, but the owner of the gasoline refuses to dispense it because you can't pay, then you are in the second category.

[Karunamon → mikeash]

(Car analogies: the bane of hackers everywhere.. especially when talking about cars ^^)

The gas is available and you already paid for it (via the power bill) - DRM reaching out to kill the system is a third party action.

[tantalor → mikeash]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_dilemma