Congress reintroduces YODA, a bipartisan bill that protects your right to treat devices as your property

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/02/08/congress-reintroduces-yoda-a.html

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Good news this is, yes :exclamation:

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β€œAt an end your rule is, and not short enought it was!”

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Keep in mind that in the U.S. copyright law already explicitly allows you to sell any copyrighted items that you own. The IP overlords have since structured transactions in such a way that you never actually own anything. Instead you pay for a non-transferable license to use their IP. I suspect that they come up with a similar dodge around this law in the unlikely event that it is passes and signed into law.

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Finally, legislation with an acronym I can deal with.

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