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Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing” (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 64 points 8 months ago (19 children)

From the article, parts pairing is “a practice manufacturers use to prevent replacement components from working unless the company’s software approves them.”

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago

And since the DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent copy protection, they just put copy protection on the software (sometimes laughably weak - still counts!) and if you try to get around the hardware lockout you’re officially breaking the lawwww

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