Pluralistic “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”
In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls locomotives. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they’ve been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves
If you ever needed to see an example of quite how insane the “IP protection” laws are, this is probably it.