{"id":43845,"date":"2018-06-20T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43845"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:08:18","slug":"do-you-have-a-right-to-repair-your-phone-the-fight-between-big-tech-and-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/20\/do-you-have-a-right-to-repair-your-phone-the-fight-between-big-tech-and-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have a Right To Repair Your Phone? The Fight Between Big Tech and Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/urPMZwW52Z8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ReasonTV<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 18 Jun 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eric Lundgren got 15 months in prison for selling pirated Microsoft software that the tech giant gives away for free. His case cuts to the heart of a major battle going on in the tech industry today: Companies are trying to preserve aspects of U.S. copyright law that give them enormous power over the products we own. <\/p>\n<p><em>Reason<\/em> is the planet&#8217;s leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reason.com<\/a> for a point of view you won&#8217;t get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReasonTV Published on 18 Jun 2018 Eric Lundgren got 15 months in prison for selling pirated Microsoft software that the tech giant gives away for free. His case cuts to the heart of a major battle going on in the tech industry today: Companies are trying to preserve aspects of U.S. copyright law that give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,9,10,15],"tags":[135,171,169,217,1609,92,417],"class_list":["post-43845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-law","category-liberty","category-technology","tag-copyright","tag-dmca","tag-eff","tag-rights","tag-righttorepair","tag-software","tag-victimlesscrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bpb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43846,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43845\/revisions\/43846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}