[aspectmin]

Not only do we need right to repair legislation across North America (and the world), but we also need right to continue using - as in - they fold, the code (e.g. licensing server) becomes open source, or something similar, so people can continue to use these products.

[ronsor]

If we removed DMCA section 1201 and the "anti-circumvention" nonsense, this would be a non-issue: people would legally reverse engineer the licensing system.

[direwolf20]

Cory Doctorow suggests every other country should start doing this now. Every other country only has this law because America pressed for it, threatening tariffs or invasion if it wasn't the other country's law. Well, here we are and in 2026 this does not prevent that.

[jujube3]

Native Instruments is a German company, not American. It seems unlikely that Germany wants them to fail or lose their IP, regardless of whether the US "threatens to invade" (?)

[direwolf20]

Germany would benefit much more from being allowed to RE American software than from forbidding RE of the much smaller amount of German software.

[snowpid]

is there a common legislation in Mexico, USA and Canada that "North America" is mentioned ?