Like I said for electricity, aren't you free to do with your GPU whatever you want?!
This is anti-consumer they should be sued.
Just like ISPs wanted to slow your traffic for services they don't like and didn't succeed hardware producers can not limit what you do with your purchased hardware.
Other people doing research etc. need GPUs. If rich people started to hoard all food or ffp masks, shops would intervene first (they did during the hoarding last year) and the government would follow if that wouldn't help.
I guess you are referring to the Tragedy of the Commons[0] but in the market efficient economy there should be enough producers(supply) to serve high aggregate demand. This action by NVIDIA only shows that GPU industry is highly concentrated and that more competition is needed. It seems like NVIDIA is a victim of its own success since it can not produce enough GPUs.
And if they simply raised prices and made huge profits, they could afford building their own fab, or at least outbidding other companies for TSMC/Samsung/whoever fab capacity...
It's not like nVidia is keeping it a secret. They are telling you ahead of the time that they are limiting the hashrate. If you don't like it, buy something else.
It's still anti-consumer, imagine situation in which self driving car manufacturer hardcodes rules according to which car not drive to certain places because reasons.
Products even if specialized can always be used for general purpose that's the beauty of computers and "hacking" after all.
This is anti-consumer they should be sued.
Just like ISPs wanted to slow your traffic for services they don't like and didn't succeed hardware producers can not limit what you do with your purchased hardware.