Isn’t DMCA 1201 the problem here? It’s the same law John Deere beats hackers, crackers and tinkerers over the head with.
They put a token, flimsy digital lock on their equipment so any replacement must be blessed and ordained by JD itself to work. If you defeat that lock, or tell someone else how to defeat that lock, you’re on the hook for fucking prison time or 500.000 bucks on your first offense.
I agree with the spirit of your comment, when I purchase a thing the manufacturer can go fuck itself. But right now governments around the world (other countries have their equivalents based on the WIPO internet treaties) put all their legal weight behind this business model.
Wait, prison time for telling someone else how to bypass a subscription to a non-digital item? I thought the guy getting two years in prison for “copyright infringement” by streaming a video game online was too much!
The only video game prison thing I saw was the guy who distributed SD card pirating cartridge and got fined into indenturement, which should not be a thing.
Isn’t DMCA 1201 the problem here? It’s the same law John Deere beats hackers, crackers and tinkerers over the head with. They put a token, flimsy digital lock on their equipment so any replacement must be blessed and ordained by JD itself to work. If you defeat that lock, or tell someone else how to defeat that lock, you’re on the hook for fucking prison time or 500.000 bucks on your first offense. I agree with the spirit of your comment, when I purchase a thing the manufacturer can go fuck itself. But right now governments around the world (other countries have their equivalents based on the WIPO internet treaties) put all their legal weight behind this business model.
Wait, prison time for telling someone else how to bypass a subscription to a non-digital item? I thought the guy getting two years in prison for “copyright infringement” by streaming a video game online was too much!
The only video game prison thing I saw was the guy who distributed SD card pirating cartridge and got fined into indenturement, which should not be a thing.
Right To Repair is growing and John Deere is a battle line.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913
Wasn’t there an exemption recently, thanks to iFixit? https://www.ifixit.com/News/54317/section-1201-exemptions-for-2021-repair-consoles-medical-devices