Ukrainian hacked firmware being used in John Deere tractors to

Psh, that's nothing

GPS-DRM is way worse: http://boingboing.net/2014/01/06/high-end-cnc-machines-cant-b.html

>can't resell used machine without maker's consent
kek

These tech companies are really starting to infringe upon a capitalist free market. No vendor should be able to tell me when i can or cant repair shit I paid for.....just another way to lose business fast like Keurig had happen after their DRM fiasco.

>>59526161
>A license agreement John Deere required farmers to sign in October forbids nearly all repair and modification to farming equipment,

>messing with the flyover-states' farmers and their militias
Bad idea.

>>59526243
>in a country that barely has privet ownership of farms
You know the corporations will keep John Deere afloat with sales, while Mom and Pop go under from holding out. Then sell off to said corporations.

>>59526307
Corporations are a disease.

>>59526243
Maybe they should vote for representatives that protect their freedoms

DRM is about extortion and control not protecting ip rights.

>>59526746
no one does, its all just who will fuck them less.

Y-you're getting what you voted for!

>>59526161

> that time when caterpillar self driver trucks that cost got hacked by skids on shodan

>>59526230
They are free to install DRM in their products if they want to. Don't like it? Buy from someone else or regulate it, commie.

>>59530219
this
this is why unregulated capitalism is retarded

https://youtu.be/HUx0gReDFkE?t=5131

>>59530219

and then people just install ukrainian firmware

>>59530219
>>59530316
Other way around, this is why REGULATED corporatism is bad. The government protects corporate rights over natural/human rights.

It's always fine for someone to ship DRM, it's currently ILLEGAL to remove it on something that you yourself own.

>>59526161

sounds like what I do with my car, fuck stock fuel maps