> The average consumer needs to be educated that if a remote server can brick a device you have already paid money for, you do not own it. It has been leased.

This isn't even the case: generally leased things have to work for some defined period of time ("the least period").

I also think a distinction should be drawn between things bricked because they require a server connection, vs devices bricked because the rightful owner has chosen to do so because they have been stolen.