Needs legal changes as well

IANAL and I haven't thought it through yet, but I suspect it will be very useful, after more of these TC devices enter the market, to have mandatory government-enforced labels on computer devices, and actual lawsuits with massive damages for "false advertising" if they are misleading, to categorize four new types of computers:

1. general-purpose computers for which the owner owns the TC keys
(this would be what we now call a "PC" or "computer')

2. special-purpose computers for which the owner owns the TC keys
(this would encompass routers, TVs, game consoles etc. that the FSF would be happy with)

3. special-purpose computers for which someone else owns the TC keys
(good: medical devices?, bad: TIVO)

4. general-purpose computers for which someone else (RIAA?) owns the TC keys
(IMHO these should be banned from the market but at least they should NEVER be allowed to be sold as "computers", only with a clear warning label "if you buy this don't believe that you really own it").

Call me a cynic but I've seen a case where a PC had a factory-locked BIOS where nobody knew the password and I see the writing on the wall that category 4 WILL come into being if it's profitable and not stopped :-)