Aux USA, un agriculteur n’achète pas son matériel, mais il achète une licence d’utilisation à vie. Du coup il n’est pas autorisé à réparer lui-même son tracteur...
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Farmers fight for the right to repair their own tractors | MNN - Mother Nature Network
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However, since 1998, the year the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) made the life of hardworking farmers’ all the more complicated, the owners of tractors, sprayers, harvesters, combines, loaders, bailers and all sorts of other agricultural machinery have been legally prohibited from embarking on their own repairs or enlisting independent mechanics to get the job done.
As Modern Farmer recently explained, the reason for this is frustratingly simple: manufacturers of farming equipment, namely John Deere, do not consider farmers to be the true owners of said equipment. Rather, farmers have purchased an “implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.”