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    Default Right to Repair-Farm Equipment Held Hostage

    I still have heartburn over this. I mean when you buy equipment it does have terms of use agreements but there seem to be practical limitations that tractor companies are not willing to allow. Even after th eLibrary of Congress gave a special copyright exemption for hacking tractor software the companies change terms of use agreements making it illegal. At the vey end of this short documentary the farmer makes a statement that he has tractors that are forty years old that are still capable of doing the job but he wonders aloud if his new tractor will still be running in ten years with all of its software and resctrictions at any price.

    Hard to believe farmers are getting sued and tractors are being remotely disabled for hacking software to repair a tractor you purchased that is out of warranty. you decide. MG

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=F8JCh0owT4w

    For some reason I cannot get the view to post like I have so often in the past, may be something has changed. Here is the link:

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    You will see similar stuff in automobiles before long.

    Enjoy your diesel deletes while they last...
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    Go tigers!

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    The market value of knowing how many acres are being harvested/prepared/BPA across vast areas before anyone else is incalculable. They are not going to give up that advantage until the last dog dies...

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    Land of the free.

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    Not much for Teslas but it is already happening on cars


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    That's why you stay the hell away from the green machine.
    RIP Kelsey "Bigdawg" Cromer
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    If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.

    Missing you my great friend.


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    Quote Originally Posted by LabLuvR View Post
    That's why you stay the hell away from the green machine.
    Because we would all starve if the world tried to farm with kubotas. They do it too just for your info.
    cut\'em

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