I like the cut of this mans jib.
The DMCA has been abused by too many companies to add a single small chip with often laughable “encryption” on it to try and block you from fixing your own stuff and making it a felony to do so. Be this a farmer trying to fix his John Deer tractor, and being threatened by John Deer with the DMCA and federally served time or something as simple as trying to make a cup of coffee in a Keurig without having to use their specifically approved coffees or just wanting to save money and not waste plastics by refilling your ink jet cartridges. The vast majority of how the DMCA has been (ab)used has been for anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices and the companies will continue to subvert and twist this law to desperately grasp at their monopolies and threaten their customers if they step out of line with one of their products. If you like to tinker with old electronics and enjoy fixing old hardware and making it work again there’s a good chance your hobby has led you to do things that in the eyes of our laws would make you a felon multiple times over, and that is straight f*cked up in my book.
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