The real answer is to stop buying from brands that lock you out. I think their business practices should be legal. It just shouldn't be popular. But these NPCs go full shocked Pikachu face when they realize a technology locked down by a corporation does the thing a corporation wants and not what they want. I don't even think the corporations are evil. These people are just idiots.

The sad thing is that up until the moment that happens these people act smug that they use shit-tech. The elitist 105 IQs.