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The European Pirate Party is doing good work addressing this bullshit :)

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/13723083

Original post by Patrick Breyer (MEP (member of the European Parliament) for the pirate party) on Mastodon: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/112716177887148583

In reference to a case detailed in this talk at 37C3: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with piracy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

I think it may tangentially as you could argue hacking into the software to modify and bypass software locks is akin to piracy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if instead of pushing for right to repair, wouldn't it be better to push for the abolition of intellectual property altogether.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Those are two seperate issues really. You can abolish IP but a company could still produce products that aren't repairable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

True, but they'd have to compete against alternatives that are repairable, because the IP no longer impedes that competition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Fuck, I forgot to post it on piracy community. I posted it only in RtR one.