<story><title>Canada Inches Closer to &apos;Right to Repair&apos; Reform</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/canada-inches-closer-to-right-to-repair-reform/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s absolutely insane that Copyright can have anything to do with repairs in the first place.&lt;p&gt;We have structured practically every legal framework in the digital world around the DMCA. What&amp;#x27;s our answer to fraud? Copyright. What&amp;#x27;s our answer to privacy violations? Copyright. What&amp;#x27;s our answer to libel? Copyright. Free software? Copyright.&lt;p&gt;This system only helps for a handful of corporations; at the expense of the rest of us. It&amp;#x27;s time to scrap Copyright and start over.</text></comment>
<story><title>Canada Inches Closer to &apos;Right to Repair&apos; Reform</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/canada-inches-closer-to-right-to-repair-reform/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>markhahn</author><text>Once people get woke to the right-to-repair their devices, maybe we can have a discussion on how open-source is the software version of the same thing.  Perhaps even broach the discussion of interoperability and standards (vs proprietary and locked-in).</text></comment>