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Analysis Right-to-repair advocates are arguing with the US government over what legal powers people have to fix or upgrade their own kit without paying manufacturers.
On June 22, 2020, the US Copyright Office put out a call for petitions to renew existing exemptions to the copyright law that prohibits bypassing the digital locks that control access to software and hardware, and to propose new exemptions.
The law, Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998, makes it illegal to undo so-called technical protection measures controlling access to copyrighted works and products, irrespective of the purpose of that circumvention. It forbids, for example, decrypting a DVD that contains a copyrighted motion picture – an operation that amounts to illegal math.