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State legislators and industry lobbyists gathered at a mountain resort to explain to themselves why farmers don’t need right-to-repair laws. Continue reading John Deere–Backed Lobbying Groups Host Anti-Right to Repair Conference
The Fair Repair act would make it easier for everyone in America to fix their own stuff. Continue reading National Right-to-Repair Bill Filed in Congress
For more than a few years now, we’ve been covering the saga of tractors from the larger manufacturers on which all components are locked down by software to the extent …read more Continue reading Tractors And The Right To Repair: It’s Going Global
Google loses its domain in Argentina, how do gripe sites make their dough, and has John Deere solved the cybersecurity problem?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer se… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #225: Master of your domain, gripe sites, and John Deere Farmergeddon
The simmering duel between farmers and agricultural machinery manufacturers over access to the software to unlock the DRM which excludes all but the manufacturer’s agents from performing repairs goes on. How this plays out will have implications for the right to repair for everyone on many more devices than simply …read more
Continue reading Right To Repair: Tractor Manufacturers Might Have Met Their Match In Australia
For the past few years now we’ve covered a long-running battle between American farmers and the manufacturers of their farm machinery, over their right to repair, with particular focus on the agricultural giant John Deere. The manufacturer of the familiar green and yellow machinery that lies in the heart and …read more
It’s fair to say that the hearts and minds of Hackaday readers lie closer to the technology centres of Shenzhen or Silicon Valley than they do to the soybean fields of Minnesota. The common link is the desire to actually own the hardware we buy. Among those working the soil …read more
Continue reading DMCA-Locked Tractors Make Decades-Old Machines the New Hotness
Warren becomes the most powerful national politician to support consumers who want to fix the things they’ve bought. Continue reading Elizabeth Warren Calls for a National Right-to-Repair Law
The California Farm Bureau has agreed to a toothless version of “right to repair” that was written by tractor manufacturers. Continue reading Farmer Lobbying Group Sells Out Farmers, Helps Enshrine John Deere’s Tractor Repair Monopoly
We went to Nebraska to meet the farmers fighting John Deere’s repair monopoly. Continue reading Tractor Hacking: Watch Our Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair