In this case, probably? I'm not a fan of excessive regulation, for this particular problem, I don't see how it could be solved without some kind of "right to re

In this case, probably? I'm not a fan of excessive regulation, for this particular problem, I don't see how it could be solved without some kind of "right to repair" law, or at least a "right to be thoroughly informed about repairability before buying" law. Even if copyright was scaled back to 20 years and explicit registration, that still would be long enough to screw customers. In fact, even if copyright didn't exist, the problem would still exist for devices that are hard to reverse-engineer.