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DIY tinkerer invents MacBook tool that breaks Apple’s repair locks
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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so apple put a DRM on a glorified reed switch? and it's legal somehow?
Laws exist for everyday people like you and me, not for megacorps like Apple. Laws and regulations are just minor business expenses to them.
A fine is just an calculable price to do something wrong, businesses love them, from the classic study:
https://rady.ucsd.edu/_files/faculty-research/uri-gneezy/fine.pdf
Just keep adding zeroes until you get the desired outcome.
This is the correct answer. If the fine was $1000 for every time you picked your kid up late you can guarantee parents would never arrive late. Same goes for businesses. The fine just needs to be in the hundreds of millions to billions. They’d change their tune.
Yep
I think its actually illegal to bypass DRM to fix it
Even though I bought it. It's illegal to tinker with some components. And we're all OK enough with it.
I mean how did this get past the "Klaus Schwab is eating your children" crowd meanwhile we can't legally reverse engineer things we bought
I don't think those is DRM, as it digital rights. I think they were using it as a comparison.