This is some Feudalism bullshit

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This is a good example of private property or IP being theft, not theoretical but actual evidence of what these rich assholes actually think by their actions.

I want to hang porkies a little more every day.

/o/tists have known this about JD for years

But OP, it's voluntary because they accepted the conditions of buying a tractor with liscenced software.


I'm laffin'

Anarcho-capitalism is monarchism. Read Hoppe. He's the true face of ancaps.

Enterprising leftists could get farmers on side by hacking their tractors' software to enable free modification and repair. Who's in?

we should just scrap copyright altogether, it's not harmed the chinese

Non-Hoppean AnCapism is just virtue signaling moralism and/or wishful thinking.

This. It's also given us gems like pic related.

Also to play devil's advocate copyright isn't even compatible with the free market. If you have a product and somebody can make the same thing better or cheaper then tough shit, you don't get some special rule saying they can't do it.

it's not even anarcho-capitalism, it's literally "we need a powerful Covenant (tm) to protect property".

it didn't harm germans and americans too in the 19th century
in those days it is brits who were butthurt abut patent violation

Marvellous.

Everything free market advocates shill for isn't compatible with the free market, I've noted through the years.

It's creeping into everything tbh
Trucks, too

Farmers are already doing that themselves, which is why John Deere is throwing a shit-fit about it.

Almost as if free market is not necessary for capitalism and that it is dependant on state regulations. Its no wonder that regulating the market is what was one of the most important aspects of medieval trade cities.

Well, I would say.

All the deregulation shit is ideology for the plebs. Free market shills are very relieved everytime a state bails a bank out of bankruptcy.

Happening in other industries too, if anyone remembers the whole GeoHotz vs Sony thing. TL;DR sony said that ps3 was their property and buys where only leasing the ability to play it, not the hardware which was still sony's "property", there was a court case and they settled out of court, GeoHotz went to go work for sony.

There's even deep-websites that Farmers are using to download the jailbreak software. Shit is literally a cyberpunk scene but constituted entirely of rural american farmers, russians, and latin americans.

Baudrillard was literally right about everything, this is the desert of the real.

Remember when microsoft wanted to make borrowing games impossible?

Wait, tractors using softwares now? What the fuck?

The cyber punk future is now, user, and it's worse than anyone could have imagined

They'll try again in a few more years. The populace are almost brainwashed enough to support them.


Engine control software has been a thing for a decade or more now. Modern vehicles have an entire computer network built inside them.
If it was designed to serve users it would be great, but it isn't.

Most mechanics need special computers to even find out what issue a particular car has nowadays, and even then it's still not easy. They'll always return some bullshit error and you have to figure it out by yourself.