The nation is in the grip of a battle over right-to-repair laws. I’m a fan. Right to repair ensures consumers’ ability to repair, or to have repaired, the products they own without having to go back to the original manufacturer. Corporations in the tech era have sought to lock down their products and the business of servicing them, both to profit from service and to protect intellectual property. The behavior is anti-competitive and monopolistic, which is to say, it’s how things work in America. Consumers can be kept out of products, and independent repairers can be driven out of business, by legal and design mechanisms … (more)
[Richard J Peltz-Steele, The Savory Tort, 30 January 2024]
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