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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months 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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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months ago

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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… Or video killed the radio star?

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