19 Aug
2015
19 Aug
'15
9:09 p.m.
This was on Hackaday <http://hackaday.com/2015/05/12/ask-hackaday-fixing-your-tractor-could-land-you-behind-bars/> (I found it via the Puri.sm subreddit <https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/35wtif/fixing_your_tractor_could_land_you_behind_bars/>) a few months back. It was almost comical that Deere's lawyers used 'our clients might do something illegal with their hacked tractors, like bypass the DRM we implemented to *listen to pirated music* and we do not want to be held accountable!' as an argument. I do think that a lot of this can be attributed to ignorance rather than malice on Deere's part, though (Hanlon's razor). -Arlo James Barnes