Why do young people feel entitled to own hardware without any legal obligations...

Why do young people feel entitled to own hardware without any legal obligations? If a company creates a product they have the right to license that hardware to you under certain legal restrictions to protect their brand and their brand image.

Good thread buddy. One day I'll tell my children about it.

Let me guess, you're also against second hand sales because that deprives the original company of additional profit?

Kill yourself, I really do mean it.

Because it's the young people who are using it.

"Why do people feel entitled to own their cars?"

Bullshit.

If you sell me something then it's mine and I can do exactly what I want with it.

If I rent a car then it's different, I'm renting it, I don't own it and I don't have the right to do whatever I want with that rental car.

If a company rents out a product then they need to state that very clearly and charge accordingly. But that's not what you're talking about here, you use the term "own hardware" which implies that it's sold. The company that sold it has zero rights after they've handed someone else ownership over it.

They're not handing you ownership, they are just licensing it to you under certain terms and conditions.

What about that little pink slip of paper that says you legally own the vehicle?

if they license it to me, i don't own it. and there's nothing wrong with that if i want to obtain a license to use a product.
if i buy a product on the other hand, i want to own it.

Is a physical copy of a game something I own or something licensed to me?

>They're not handing you ownership
Stop lying, they are trying to sell you the product and own it too. You can't have it both ways.

It's interesting that quite a few big corporations have the practice of selling you a hardware product and then they present a software license once you turn it on. This is illegal in the EU which means that if you buy a laptop and you don't like the Windows license then you're entitled to a full refund. The same applies to all Apple products.

I'm a GNU/Linux user so I never see those requests to accept some license anyway. Not that it matters for those who just click on through since they are not legally binding contracts.