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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by zanny on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:04PM (#20811989)
Something contemporary American culture has entirely forgot is the principle of a right to repair.

Even in a post-IP world you can have it be law that anything sold must include its documentation, manuals, and thus in the case of software on the sold product, its source code.

The fact so few realize how grossly unjust it is that most products sold today not only are undocumented but are intentionally obfuscated to make repair nigh impossible in order to drive replacement is the origin of the problem, though.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:25PM (#20812224)
It's even worse - this is something of a yesterday's problem. We have a growing trend of turning products into services, which not only prevents you from repairing things (which you now don't own), but also restricts ways you can use them and creates an aggressive form of planned obsolescence.
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