When we fight, we win.
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Is it just me, or is the final ruling a tough one to parse? The final section 201.40 with the cumulative exemptions seems … a bit convoluted.
So if retail food preparation equipment is now exempted from the DMCA 1201, we have a loophole. Just set up the PTO on your John Deere tractor to run a commercial bread kneading machine for a week before you hit the fields for the spring and poof → your right to repair is secured. 
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Well it would have to be in a retail setting, not a commercial or industrial one. Meaning you would have to open a pop-up shop to sell your tractor kneaded bread dough to the general public.
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Medical devices too, but the tools to bypass lockouts are still illegal. 
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Don’t you mean proof → your bread is ready to bake?
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about fucking time;
Council member Mercedes Narcisse, a Brooklyn Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said on Tuesday that the new law ends racial disparities in enforcement, noting that more than 90% of the jaywalking tickets issued last year went to Black and Latino people.
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