The DMCA (and to a lesser extent, CFAA) is routinely abused by software & hardware manufacturers to prevent people from taking control of their own devices, and if you do it at a large scale then you will eventually end up with a gun to your head.
The DMCA (and to a lesser extent, CFAA) is routinely abused by software & hardware manufacturers to prevent people from taking control of their own devices, and if you do it at a large scale then you will eventually end up with a gun to your head.
Vote with your pocket , there are phones like fairphone [1] which makes right to repair a central part of their design .
Even if people don’t know or care about right to repair a lot of people care about sustainability , you can’t have one sustainable credentials with unrepairable phones like Apple keeps marketing.
Help others in your life make that informed choice .
And they looked from their windows at the angry masses and asked: "What do they want?" - "Well they are unhappy that Disney only streams to certified firmware, that banking apps don't work on rooted systems, and that their devices report to the secret police" - "I don't understand" - "They say their bread is moldy and rotten" - "Then why don't they eat cake?"
Supporting ethical companies is a good thing and you should totally do that. But i doubt the emergence of surveillance capitalism can be solved by that alone. By no means stop advocating for it, it does bring change, but some business and government practices must be regulated. And some existing regulation must be changed to favor humans instead of corporations and government agencies.
Note the thread is not about a "right to repair" but a "right to repair democracy"