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EFF Wins DMCA Exemption Petitions for Tinkering and Repair
- Shish2k 8y ago> "But New Circumvention Rules Still Too Narrow To Benefit Most Technology Users" :( (tl;dr: the short whitelist of devices that users are allowed to repair grew a little bit longer; but "users can't repair their own devices if the manufacturer doesn't want them to" is still the default)
- merricksb 8y agoAnother version of this story discussed 3 days ago (1053 points/343 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18303560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18303560