<story><title>The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>See the section titled “What the Magnuson-Moss Act Does Not Require” of the FTC’s “Businessperson’s Guide to Federal Warranty Law”[1] to understand why this is not even &lt;i&gt;close&lt;/i&gt; to “enforcing right to repair”. Aside from the fact that the FTC can’t enforce a right to repair law that doesn’t exist, the promise to enforce the Magnuson-Moss Act doesn’t even scratch the surface of what right to repair aims to accomplish. For example, farmers who have famously campaigned for right to repair for years (decades?) aren’t covered by the Act because their equipment is for commercial, not consumer, use.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Even though I think it’s beyond ridiculous to paint this as “right to repair” I am &lt;i&gt;absolutely&lt;/i&gt; going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.gov&amp;#x2F;tips-advice&amp;#x2F;business-center&amp;#x2F;guidance&amp;#x2F;businesspersons-guide-federal-warranty-law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.gov&amp;#x2F;tips-advice&amp;#x2F;business-center&amp;#x2F;guidance&amp;#x2F;bus...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AussieWog93</author><text>&amp;gt;I am absolutely going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear&lt;p&gt;I sell video games and consoles for a living, and probably repair about 20-30 of them each month.&lt;p&gt;Based on my experience, the reasons that Microsoft don&amp;#x27;t want you poking around in your Xbox when it&amp;#x27;s under warranty are completely valid.&lt;p&gt;For any console that hasn&amp;#x27;t been tampered with, the fault is almost always one of only two or three things that can be diagnosed nearly instantly and repaired in around 15-30 minutes with a near-100% success rate.&lt;p&gt;For a console that has been tampered with by an end-user, suddenly the list of things that could have gone wrong multiplies by an order of magnitude.  The diagnostic procedure goes from a simple 1:1 mapping of symptom to fix to a broad tree of debugging steps.  The total process can easily take multiple hours and end up nowhere, depending on how many YouTube videos and Reddit threads the previous owner followed blindly.&lt;p&gt;Of course, the consumer is not going to admit that they&amp;#x27;re an idiot who transformed their console from a simple fix to something that&amp;#x27;s beyond economic repair, so either Microsoft has to provide them with a brand new machine or they will face legal action&amp;#x2F;scathing reviews online.&lt;p&gt;Short of warranty stickers, what are Microsoft to do?</text></comment>
<story><title>The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>See the section titled “What the Magnuson-Moss Act Does Not Require” of the FTC’s “Businessperson’s Guide to Federal Warranty Law”[1] to understand why this is not even &lt;i&gt;close&lt;/i&gt; to “enforcing right to repair”. Aside from the fact that the FTC can’t enforce a right to repair law that doesn’t exist, the promise to enforce the Magnuson-Moss Act doesn’t even scratch the surface of what right to repair aims to accomplish. For example, farmers who have famously campaigned for right to repair for years (decades?) aren’t covered by the Act because their equipment is for commercial, not consumer, use.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Even though I think it’s beyond ridiculous to paint this as “right to repair” I am &lt;i&gt;absolutely&lt;/i&gt; going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.gov&amp;#x2F;tips-advice&amp;#x2F;business-center&amp;#x2F;guidance&amp;#x2F;businesspersons-guide-federal-warranty-law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.gov&amp;#x2F;tips-advice&amp;#x2F;business-center&amp;#x2F;guidance&amp;#x2F;bus...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donmcronald</author><text>People have no idea how nasty serialization of parts is going to get if it isn&amp;#x27;t stopped by new legislation.  You&amp;#x27;ll be lucky if you don&amp;#x27;t have to buy your socks and shoes from the same vendor in 2030 :-(</text></comment>