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Cory Doctorow

Big Ag is a particularly odious repair troll, and John Deere is its standard-bearer. The company has been trying to felonize farmers' repairing their own tractors since at least 2015:

web.archive.org/web/2015042817

They told the US Copyright Office that farmers don't own their tractors - because tractor firmware is copyrighted, it is licensed, not sold, and farmers must abide by the company's license terms.

wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownersh

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web.archive.orgDo you ever really own a computerized device?Canadian author and technologist Cory Doctorow talks about digital ownership, Canada’s Bill C-11 and the U.S. DMCA, which say that if a manufacturer uses computer code to control what you do with the things you buy, you can’t overrule them
Jul 07, 2021, 01:14 AM·Public·Web
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