Re:Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost
by IBM on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:19PM
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Well you have the right to do what you want with it. That's the thing about "Right To Repair", you already have the right to do it now. It's not illegal to open up your iPhone and replace a broken screen, Apple just doesn't support it by selling you genuine parts.
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Re:Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost
by alasdair_ on Friday April 13, 2018 @04:06PM
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>That's the thing about "Right To Repair", you already have the right to do it now.
Except that a lot of the times, you don't. The issue arises when the manufacturer adds some encryption to validate that a part is genuine (e.g. printer manufacturers using code signing to validate a printer cartridge is theirs) then suing people under the DMCA when they have to reverse-engineer the encryption just to repair their item.
Take the John Deere case for example (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/06/nebraska...) - farmers bought tractors. The tractors needed to be repaired. To do this, the farmers needed to either break John Deere's copy protection mechanisms or use John Deere's own expensive repair services. Deere sued the farmers for trying to repair their own tractors.