Trusted clients are attractive to business as a form of vendor lock-in: sell the trusted client at a loss and charge more than would be otherwise economically viable for the associated service. One early example was radio receivers that were subsidized by broadcasters, but restricted to receiving only their radio station. Modern examples include video recorders being forced by law to include Macrovision copy protection, the DVD region code system and region-coded video game consoles.
Trusted clients are attractive to business as a form of vendor lock-in sell the trusted client at a loss and charge more than would be otherwise economically viable for the associated service One early example was radio receivers that were subsidized by broadcasters but restricted to receiving only their radio station Modern examples include video recorders being forced by law to include Macrovision copy protection the DVD region code system and region-coded video game consoles