What's interesting is that it was established long before the DMCA that copyright is NOT supposed to establish new property rights on devices after sale. There was a court case I think in the 1980s with garage door openers, and the supreme court made it pretty clear as I recall that you don't get to use copyright to give yourself property rights to a device you've already sold.
I apparently got the dates wrong, it wasn't until after the passing of the DMCA that someone tried to use copyright to establish a property right over something they'd already sold, and even my memory of that was a bit flawed because the talk of property rights in the decision appears to be different than I remember it.
Getting old sucks!
Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc. (2004) https://web.archive.org/web/20090618100237/http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/381/381.F3d.1178.04-1118.html#
Getting old sucks!
Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc. (2004) https://web.archive.org/web/20090618100237/http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/381/381.F3d.1178.04-1118.html#
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