I have now gotten this Disabling Update on both of my Roku boxes.
First, I find the new Arbitration Agreement completely unconscionable and one-sided.
Second, the means to Opt-Out, which required snail mail and your receipt(!) - when "appropriate" (hopelessly vague) is unacceptable and anti-consumer, meant to make it hard to do, so folx can't or will not do it.
Third, BRICKING THE DEVICES (and TVs and APPs) with their digital lock (e.g., you CANNOT get past the pop-up at all) amounts, IMHO, to theft of property. If they want to brick it then they should pay full market costs I paid for the devices.
We should be allowed to opt-out online, in the pop-up; or at least be allowed to dismiss the pop-up and continue to use the device pending our writing an opt-out letter to them.
Cory Doctorow hit the nail on the head with his colourful metaphor re: the corporate overreach here at the end stage of Capitalism.
My boxes stop working every day, several times, because of the poor wifi receivers they use. Or perhaps its their software. Who knows. Point is they are *barely* usable as is...now they have broken them.
Pretty poor business model. I hope they get sued and their stock tanks and they go away forever.
Signed,
An Irate Customer
