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You can’t repair your tractor because Hollywood was terrified of the VCR (opens in new tab)

Covers Today’s bans on DIY repairs of everything from cell phones to tractors grew out of Hollywood’s fear of videotaping

The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act accidentally handed John Deere the legal right to lock farmers out of their own tractors.

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