HT201442 How can I restore iOS6 on my iPad 3

My iPad 3 is struggling to cope with iOS 7 - I wish I had never upgraded.
When I try to restore the iOS6 .ipsw file - I get error 3194
Is Apple not allowing me to do this? And if so what's the reason ?

The numeric keyboard lag I can live with - but really, this boils down to something more worrying: My product which worked fine a month ago, is now worse than when I bought it. And I can't get it back to factory condition because a config entry in an Apple database that says I can't. Nothing else. Maybe fixes will come out, at some point, maybe.
Is it just me? Am I mad to think that if I buy a product I should be allowed to do whatever I **** well want with it?
If I want right now I could install Windows 95 on my PC or revert my Android phone back to factory condition - they might not work, might be full of bugs, but I could still do it and on my head be it for trying such a thing... But! I'm still free to do it.
Has there been any reason given for this "locking down" of downgrading?

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