Protect Your Right to Repair and Control the Devices in Your Life

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14 points·DiabloD3··4 comments

Cory Doctorow has been banging on about this for years. What he and the EFF don’t seem to understand, and certainly don’t care about is the creators right to protect their intellectual property. Why should it be legal for people who only bought the right to use a product, and not the right to access the creators intellectual property, be allowed to legally reverse engineer your hard work?

99% of people, myself included, couldn’t tinker or fix the electronic products they buy anyway.

The existing laws are there for good reason. This is one fight the EFF aren’t going to win.

When buying something in a store no sane person expects to be buying "the right to use this toaster". They expect to buy the physical toaster.

And if indeed you buy the right to use a toaster, wouldn't that then also imply that if your toaster breaks the company would have to replace it? After all you've not bought a toaster, you've bought the right to use a toaster.

> 99% of people ... couldn't ...

The rest of your argumentary might stand, but this... Didn't we hear it all before? "99% of people have nothing to hide from their government", "99% of people wouldn't be able to understand the legal language to read the law' etc.

Nonsensical argument. What does the government have to do with this, and making up quotes to support whatever it is you’re trying to get across, doesn’t exactly speak with authority?

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