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Do You Have the Right to Repair Your Products? | Beyond the Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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The Role of Software in Hardware Repair

Lewis: How do companies start people from doing the hack or doing this self-repair? What are the ways that companies block this? Lewis: Some of the most obvious ones are just the way they design the hardware itself. He says John Deere essentially does this by including software on their tractors. It's basically holding these farmers hostage when it comes to repair, he says.

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