Cory Doctorow

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Cory Doctorow: You Bought it, They Break It · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

There's a kind of nuance there where it's like you have to bypass an access control to do it, but all you have to do is add the access control to the product and you can conjure new felonies out of thin air.

So Jay Freeman calls it felony contempt of business model, basically.

They just created a path where any firm could take any conduct it didn't like and make it a literal crime.

just by designing their technology.

Yeah, yeah.

So if you, like, the whole right to repair fight about cars is because the diagnostic messages that go from the part

to what's called the main computing unit, the MCU, the main computer in your car, those are encrypted and decrypting them, bypassing the access control is a felony.

And each engine component has a chip, it's called a system on a chip.

It's a cheap little full feature computer that costs less than a dollar.

And when you put the part in the car,

The part and the MCU do a little handshake where it says like, can you send me like a magic code that demonstrates that you were installed by an official technician and that you were made by the original manufacturer and that you're not a generic replacement part?

And if it can't, even though it's a real part that really works, the car just refuses to recognize it.

And it's not just cars, ventilators, major appliances, your phone, medical implants.

It's called parts pairing.

And because this is federal law, right?

This is DMCA 1201.

It's a federal law.

When states pass right to repair laws, they really can't reach to this because it preempts it.

In Oregon, what they've done is they just said, you're not allowed to sell a device that requires parts pairing.

But that's as far as they've gotten.

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