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Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair (www.404media.co)
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A group representing L. Ron Hubbard asked the Copyright Office to alter a repair exemption that makes it legal to hack Scientology's E-Meter—and lots of other electronics, too.

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[–] AssPennies@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Full article here (wayback machine; the original was partially behind a paywall for me).

All the scientology malarkey aside, it's bananas to me that anything electronic is the purview of the US Copyright Office. It's insane to me that the RIAA/MPAA et. al. lobbies have been so successful in getting the US government to do their bidding.