Belkin Bricks Most Wemo Smart Home Devices, Again Demonstrating You Don’t Own What You Buy Belkin is the latest company to painfully demonstrate that you no longer own what you buy, and the whims of corporate executives can very often leave you with expensive paperweights. In a recent st…

Belkin Bricks Most Wemo Smart Home Devices, Again Demonstrating You Don’t Own What You Buy | Techdirt

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Who Killed the Internet? – Cory Doctorow

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YouTube Apparently Unsure If Shakespeare Is In The Public Domain One of the darker threads of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is how complex copyright enforcement systems can be abused, for example by sending Digital Millennium Cop…

YouTube Apparently Unsure If Shakespeare Is In The Public Domain | Techdirt

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Ron Wyden Presses FTC For Disclosure Rules On Ownership Rights Of Digital Purchases We talk a lot here about the concept of “ownership” of what we spend money on, particularly as it relates to purchases that are digital or have some reliance on internet connectivity. D…

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Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures Hospitals are increasingly being forced into maintenance contracts with device manufacturers, driving up costs.

Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures

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Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025) – Cory Doctorow

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The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing – Cory Doctorow

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"Economics is the "look what you made me do" stick that capitalism uses to beat us with."

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It’s Doubtful United Healthcare Is Abusing The DMCA To Takedown Luigi Mangione Apparel, But Someone Is I had seen this story before Christmas making the rounds on Bluesky, claiming that United Healthcare had sent DMCA takedowns to Teepublic to remove artist Rachel Kenaston’s illustration of Luigi Ma…

It’s Doubtful United Healthcare Is Abusing The DMCA To Takedown Luigi Mangione Apparel, But Someone Is

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Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers A central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) and this blog is that the copyright industry is never satisfied. Now matter how long the term of copyright, publishers a…

Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers | Techdirt

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Words Without Action Are Wind: Senators Blast Automakers On ‘Right To Repair’ U.S. automakers have long tried to monopolize repair, in a bid to cash in on captive customers. But they also want to cash in on user behavior, driving, and phone data without much in the way of ov…

Words Without Action Are Wind: Senators Blast Automakers On ‘Right To Repair’ | Techdirt

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Copyright Abuse Is Getting Luigi Mangione Merch Removed From the Internet Artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims.

Copyright Abuse Is Getting Luigi Mangione Merch Removed From the Internet

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Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024) – Cory Doctorow

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It Is Now Legal to Hack McFlurry Machines (and Medical Devices) to Fix Them A new federal rule makes it legal to bypass software locks on commercial food equipment for the purposes of repair.

It Is Now Legal to Hack McFlurry Machines (and Medical Devices) to Fix Them

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FTC Investigating John Deere Over ‘Right To Repair’ Violations A few years ago agricultural equipment giant John Deere found itself on the receiving end of an antitrust lawsuit for its efforts to monopolize tractor repair. The lawsuits noted that the…

It's time for some John Deere execs to go to prison.

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John Deere Once Again Under Fire Again For Efforts To Monopolize Repair A few years ago agricultural equipment giant John Deere found itself on the receiving end of an antitrust lawsuit for its efforts to monopolize tractor repair. The lawsuits noted that the…

John Deere Once Again Under Fire Again For Efforts To Monopolize Repair | Techdirt

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Mazda Annoys Owners By Making Remote Start A Subscription One foundational belief of the “right to repair” movement is that consumers should actually own the technology they pay for. Unfortunately that’s increasingly not the case when it…

Mazda Annoys Owners By Making Remote Start A Subscription | Techdirt

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Pluralistic: A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge – Cory Doctorow

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Movie Companies Take DMCA Subpoena 'Shortcut' Dispute to Court of Appeals * TorrentFreak Movie studios are appealing a court decision that prevented them from using a DMCA shortcut to identify alleged BitTorrent pirates.

Movie Companies Take DMCA Subpoena 'Shortcut' Dispute to Court of Appeals * TorrentFreak

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FTC Pushed To Crack Down On Companies That Ruin Hardware Via Software Updates Or Annoying Paywalls We’ve noted for years how you no longer really own the things you buy. Whether it’s smart home hardware that becomes useless paperweights when the manufacturer implodes, or post-purchase …

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Pluralistic: “Disenshittify or Die” – Cory Doctorow

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