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05/10/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

John Deere makes insane claim that farmers don’t own their tractors in bizarre twisted view of ownership

With each passing year, our world becomes dependent on technology and software. Thanks to software, modern cars, trucks, and even tractors have become safer, easier to handle, and more fuel efficient. While that might convince every farmer to update their hardware, an increasing number of farmers are deciding to stick with their old mechanical, non-computerized […]

04/02/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Farmers are now forced to hack into their own tractors to bypass draconian manufacturer controls

American farmers reluctantly find themselves resorting to the black market because of a legally binding licensing agreement imposed by John Deere and other similarly situated manufacturers. Given this restriction, which John Deere apparently crafted to circumvent an agricultural vehicle exemption in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, many heartland farmers believe that they have no alternative but to download jailbreaked […]

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