Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoDeere must face US farmers' 'right-to-repair' lawsuits, judge ruleswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1481arrow-down10
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minus-squareMonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoThis has been going on for more than a decade. https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/john-deere-wants-to-make-it-illegal-to-repair-your-own-tractor.336850/ https://theamericangenius.com/business-news/farmers-cant-legally-fix-their-own-john-deere-tractors-due-to-copyright-laws/ https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/17/432601480/diy-tractor-repair-runs-afoul-of-copyright-law Copyright law. The same hill Obama decided Aaron Schwartz should die on to protect the profitability of private journals command over academia. Neo-liberalism needs thrown into the “Nationalists Christians” pile.
This has been going on for more than a decade.
https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/john-deere-wants-to-make-it-illegal-to-repair-your-own-tractor.336850/
https://theamericangenius.com/business-news/farmers-cant-legally-fix-their-own-john-deere-tractors-due-to-copyright-laws/
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/17/432601480/diy-tractor-repair-runs-afoul-of-copyright-law
Copyright law. The same hill Obama decided Aaron Schwartz should die on to protect the profitability of private journals command over academia.
Neo-liberalism needs thrown into the “Nationalists Christians” pile.