John Deere Still Sucks On 'Right To Repair,' Despite Years Of Promises

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Not only have corporate efforts to monopolize repair resulted in a flood of proposed state and federal laws, the Biden Administration's recent executive order on monopoly power and competition urged the FTC to tighten up its rules on repair monopolization efforts, whether it's ham-fisted DRM, or making repair manuals, parts, and diagnostics hard to come by. At the […]

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Are 'Fast Movies' Really A Substitute For The Real Thing? Or Just Good Marketing?

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There's an interesting post on the TorrentFreak blog about fast movies: These heavily edited copies of mainstream movies aim to summarize key plot lines via voice-over narration in about 10 minutes. While no replacement for the real thing, these edits accumulated millions of views and incurred the wrath of rightsholders, leading to the arrest of […]

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