Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair
by fexecve on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:08PM
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The bill originally was going to make available to customers and independent service centers the same parts and manuals that manufacturer repair centers have. The governor edited the bill slightly in a way that makes it almost useless now. It was edited to say that manufacturers don't have to provide parts if they think that there's a safety issue. They can just make a "full assembly" available rather than individual parts. This means that if you have a $800 device, and a $10 part can fix it, but the manufacturer decides that it's a "safety issue" to sell anything less than a $700 "motherboard assembly" then this negates the entire purpose of right to repair. He says "this bill allows for malicious compliance in a way that makes it functionally useless".
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Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair
by a9h74j on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:33PM
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Seems conceivable that this could come back to bite a manufacturer. For example, more cause for "safety recalls", or need to admit in testimony that a major assembly "had a known safety issue". Or might dealers be on the hook for higher certifications of repair technicians?
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair
by nobody9999 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:17AM
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I'd also note (assuming the local news I saw had it right), that the changes also only require manufacturers to provide such "assemblies" if and only if they are manufactured in New York state after June 1, 2023.
The news may have it wrong, but that's an oddly specific claim to wrongly make, IMHO.