Here in Brazil we have the consumer defense code, which has articles against tying.
However, this is a subjective right, not an objective right. This means that, it does exist by law, but only applies if the party involved wants to exercise it. If it would be objective, perhaps no redistributor would do tying. In the case of Brazil, the consumer can request that the manufacturer (not the vendor/redistributor) removes the tied software from the computer with no cost. However, the consumer must-not accept the terms that come along with the tied software, in order to be legally capable of exercising the right. Besides, it seems that most Brazilians don't exercise this right because they acquire the hardware when the situation is desperate, or because they fear that exercising it might take time and money (which in most cases it does, specially if you have to pay for transportation of the product back and forth). On top of it, if the consumer takes it back to the vendor/redistributor instead of delivering it to the manufacturer and request for untying, the vendor/redistributor might just do the untying himself, but this is worse because it doesn't educate the manufacturer to respond appropriately for these cases, besides, the vendor/redistributor might void the warranty doing so.
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