Chris Berube

And Cory Doctorow says, like, maybe we should start thinking beyond the laws.

Like he has other approaches to this.

He thinks we actually need to be doing something a lot more radical.

Oh, OK.

Tell me more.

What does he have in mind?

One thing Corey is pushing for is countries outside the United States to basically break the digital locks, right, to allow third party manufacturers to make replacement parts, things like that.

So Canada and Mexico are in a trade war with the U.S.

right now.

And Corey says, look, what if those countries made generic replacement parts that go around the locks and then export those generic parts all over the world?

Yeah, that can feel like a long shot, right?

But we do have to think about different ways to fix this problem.

Roman, there's so much going on in the world right now, but this issue feels pretty urgent to me.

Because if we don't act, you know, if we don't do something about these kind of everyday frustrations, this general shittiness of things, but also this big cost for lots of people, it's just going to get worse.

And on a much simpler level, Roman, I would like to live in a world where somebody like Jared can just fix his tractor.

Oh, good.

OK, so this was infuriating, but also entertaining.

That's what I was going for today.

Exactly.

Like good punk rock.