Right to Repair Groundswell as Farmers Battle DMCA

The article discusses how modern farm equipment relies on proprietary software and how manufacturers invoke the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to prevent owners and independent repairers from accessing diagnostic tools and repair information; it covers farmers' complaints about repair delays and costs, state-level right-to-repair legislative efforts (e.g., Nebraska modeled on Massachusetts' law), and the broader implications for startups and independent service providers that rely on device data and repairability.