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
Those are two seperate issues really. You can abolish IP but a company could still produce products that aren't repairable
True, but they'd have to compete against alternatives that are repairable, because the IP no longer impedes that competition.