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You Don’t Own What You Bought | with Louis Rossmann

You Don’t Own What You Bought | with Louis Rossmann

Schweizer Monat vor 4 Monaten

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Louis Rossmann joins Alex Buxeda to discuss why you don't own
your devices, how DMCA Section 1201 makes repair illegal, and
what right to repair means for consumers, libertarians,
progressives and everyone in between.

FULU: https://fulu.org/our-story

Consumer Rights Wiki: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/FUTO

Repairs: https://rossmanngroup.com/

00:00 Right to Repair: Why Fixing What You Own Is Being Made
Illegal

01:22 From Mac Repairs to a Movement

07:05 You Can't Call It "Yours" — California's Digital Ownership
Law

09:06 FUTO & the Consumer Rights Wiki

11:07 DMCA Section 1201: Repair Is Illegal and People Can Go to
Prison

13:15 Your TV Is Spying on You — and That's a Business Model

17:11 Two Types of Activism: Lecturing People vs. Making Their
Life Better

22:41 Right to Repair Is Bipartisan — Even Libertarians Should
Want DMCA Gone

26:28 Stop Killing Games & Why Patents Actually Kill
Innovation

28:41 The Zaxcom Patent: How One Patent Broke an Entire Industry

33:48 Competition Makes Everyone Behave Better (Non-Competes,
Monopolies)

37:29 Forced Arbitration: The LG Refrigerator Contract Hidden in
the Box

44:07 Why Both Libertarians and Progressives Miss the Point

51:12 How Louis Pitches Right to Repair to Every Political Side

52:14 Open Source vs. Closed Source: The Real Cost of Switching

56:57 FUTO's Business Model: You Can Be Ethical and Profitable

1:00:05 Switzerland Has the World's Most Expensive Subscriptions

1:05:33 EU Consumer Rights vs. US: The Hidden Cost of Bundled
Protections

1:12:45 Netflix's Fake 4K, Piracy Ethics, and Books Being
Silently Edited

1:16:09 Why Louis Teaches His Competition for Free — and It Works

1:17:28 Living Your Values: Why Both Hosts Left Their Home
Countries

1:20:32 eBay's Broken Algorithm: When Markets Don't Self-Correct

1:35:36 Crowdsourcing Repair Knowledge: The Repair Preservation
Group Wiki

1:39:02 "I'm a Capitalist Who Believes You Can Make Money Without
Being a Dick"

1:42:40 Patience Pays: Ethical Business Takes Years to Be
Recognized

1:45:09 The Marginal Revolution: Small Changes Shift Power Back
to Consumers

1:50:55 Ad Blockers as Market Reform and What the Internet Could
Have Been

1:57:20 AI-Generated Emails, the Em Dash Tell, and the Future of
Spam