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1. Is the software lock protected by copyright law? If so, no one should copy it.
2. Did McDonald's/Taylor defraud the users? If so, the users can sue them.
3. Is Kytch copying the software lock and selling it? If so, that would be a violation. However, you have said that they are not copying it; they are simply reading error codes and providing a different output. In that case, I do not see why they would need to invoke DMCA 1201 for an exemption. This is a completely different situation, like someone creating a keyboard or stand for my laptop. Kytch should apply for their own copyright in this case. Their appeal should be made in this direction.
If customers have problems with the machines, they should not buy them or use them. They have the freedom to choose. Additionally, if McDonald's has defrauded them in any way, they should sue McDonald's. There is a free choice.
iFixit may be great engineers who can perform magic, but they are literally asking Congress for an exemption to violate copyright law. This will not end with McDonald's; others will follow suit.
As for Ayn Rand's argument, because it provides the right expression in one line.
Effect: Meta didn't release Threads in EU as a start. This is not ease of business
1. Why don't they attack smaller companies who are ready to sell their companies to Amazon or Microsoft. 2. Why don't they ask government to put people in jail who are buying products from Amazon and making Amazon big?
Recently EU also making plans to regulate the battery replacement. I covered that here briefly in my site political-ledger dot com
Free market means, freely allowing people to trade using persuasions — not government using its coercion. People also often forget other side of the picture.
1. Why don't they attack smaller companies who are ready to sell their companies to Amazon or Microsoft. 2. Why don't they ask government to put people in jail who are buying products from Amazon and making Amazon big?
Recently EU also making plans to regulate the battery replacement. I covered that here briefly in my site political-ledger dot com
2) Yes, you have mentioned some of the things that India did on secular grounds. But that doesn't refute the present context. Still wrong doings are happening. Instead of focusing on those, should we remember all the past events and be silent?
3) Islam invades Hindus, then let's Hindus mob-lynch Muslims. Always stuck in who slaughters who. No progress towards right secular habits.
John Lock: https://www.amazon.com/Locke-Treatises-Government-Cambridge-...