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Right-to-repair warriors seek broader DMCA exemptions to bypass digital locks on the stuff we own

needmorehare
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Or require

That the onus is on the user of any tools which can be used to infringe, not the person distributing them, if the code for the tool itself isn't infringing on someone's copyright. Boom! Problem sorted. It all remains illegal but unenforceable in practice, as people can then post visual dry-run tech demos to show how the tools should work and then let end users "do their own repairs" while in some cases being "supervised" by a repair shop which is "teaching them how to repair" their own stuff ;-)

All the devs and paid pros are now exhibiting non-infringing behaviour while the end user breaks the law. No company wants to be seen to be suing their own customer base, so they will all then step down.

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