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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by supernova87a on Sunday October 04, 2020 @02:39PM (#24681235)
Go and fix the loopholes! Get Congress to act. I wish they would.

But in the meantime, respect existing laws and rights in contracts.

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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by ictebres on Sunday October 04, 2020 @02:46PM (#24681303)
Society can change such laws only when there is an open discussion that is exactly doing that, not-respecting the laws and rights in contracts.
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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by simion314 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @02:46PM (#24681310)
Contracts can be found to be unlawful. But until then we should publish and share this kind of articles, if many people know the shit Apple.,Google,Amazon and others do then this kind of laws will be proposed.

so let's share this not because it is illegal now but to debate if it should be illegal to prevent recycling and repairing.

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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by stale2002 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @02:45PM (#24681291)
> But in the meantime, respect existing laws and rights in contracts.

A great way of changing laws is to purposefully break them and undermine them, actually.

If people really do not like a law, then we can encourage others to break them, and make these bad laws difficult to enforce.

If a bad law can't be enforced, then it may as well not exist.

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