Sorry, But I don’t get that. I’m not being a jerk, I just don’t see how I’m getting hoodwinked. if you invite the walls in you invite them in. At least now you get to see the show.
Some very imperfect analogies that don’t do this justice. Do book publishers hoodwink me by making it physically hard to copy the book without advanced technology (xerox machine). If I rented my computer from a company, so that I did not own it, would that be acceptable then? That’s effectively what my cable box does. There’s no hoodwinkery then? If the program were in my computer as part of the firmware, baked into the intel chip, rather than software would this be hoodwinkery? It’s not modifying my computer in any way. After all that’s what Bluerays and HDMI TVs can do. I
