Desperate John Deere tractor owners are downloading illegal Ukrainian firmware hacks to get the crops in
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2GPG7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwoqN2UzAEg
John Deere is notorious for arguing that farmers who buy its tractors actually "license" them because Deere still owns the copyright to the tractors' software; in 2015, the US Copyright Office affirmed that farmers were allowed to jailbreak their tractors to effect repairs and modifications. (more")