permian-tropos: plantanarchy: ok apparently there are MULTIPLE KINDS of tractor anarchy happening currently like 1) Catalan farmers blocking roads with their tractors to fuck with police 2) American farmers using Ukrainian firmware to hack their tractors after John Deere changed their licensing to forbid user repairs because “they own the tractor software, you’re just using …
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Desperate John Deere tractor owners are downloading illegal Ukrainian firmware hacks to get the crops in
raisedbycats: n-talia-a: johnnyramonesanticommunistshirt: mostlysignssomeportents: John Deere is notorious for arguing that farmers who buy its tractors actually “license” them because Deere still owns the copyright to the tractors’ software; in 2015, the US Copyright Office affirmed that farmers were allowed to jailbreak their tractors to effect repairs and modifications. But the Copyright Office doesn’t have …
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