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Honestly the DRMification of everything is getting out of hand. It's not just tractors. Much of the industrial gear for sale has the same problems. Vendors seem

Honestly the DRMification of everything is getting out of hand. It's not just tractors. Much of the industrial gear for sale has the same problems. Vendors seem to think it's acceptable. We need a DRM-free mark and a complaints registration system to provide a PR-pushback mechanism.

mellavora 4y ago
Yes, I agree with you. I wish pervasive theft wasn't creating a business case for more of it see i.e. https://www.techdirt.com/2021/08/05/home-depot-tech-will-brick-power-tools-if-theyre-stolen-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/ https://www.techdirt.com/2021/08/05/home-depot-tech-will-bri... and many related articles.
- pessimizer 4y ago
  There's a business case for periodically killing people who miss loan payments, to keep the other debtors on their toes. The idea that the concept of theft has to be eliminated in order not to justify these business practices is an infinite license for them to continue.
hulitu 4y ago
Wait till the Mafia finds out. "Nice car you have there. Do you want it to still going ?"
- cronix 4y ago
  Kind of like, "hey, that battery that came with the used car you bought was larger than the previous owner paid for, so we reduced what you can use by 1/3 unless you pay us $4,500?" https://electrek.co/2022/07/26/tesla-ransom-customer-over-80-miles-battery-range/ https://electrek.co/2022/07/26/tesla-ransom-customer-over-80...
CatWChainsaw 4y ago
DRM and copyright. The information freely available outside such IP silos puts you decades in the past, with the gulf only widening. So odd, how it happened that way. /s