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cm0002@lemmings.world to Technology@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 month ago

Today’s bans on DIY repairs of everything from cell phones to tractors grew out of Hollywood’s fear of videotaping

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Today’s bans on DIY repairs of everything from cell phones to tractors grew out of Hollywood’s fear of videotaping

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cm0002@lemmings.world to Technology@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 month ago
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Efforts to use technology to police copyright evolved into companies using copyright law to lock people out of repairing their own devices.
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