{"id":14880,"date":"2015-02-06T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T20:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14880"},"modified":"2015-02-08T21:09:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T03:09:56","slug":"new-high-tech-farm-equipment-is-a-nightmare-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14880","title":{"rendered":"New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Manufacturers have every legal right to put a password or an encryption over the tECU. Owners, on the other hand, don\u2019t have the legal right to break the digital lock over their own equipment. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act\u2014a 1998 copyright law designed to prevent digital piracy\u2014classifies breaking a technological protection measure over a device\u2019s programming as a breach of copyright. So, it\u2019s entirely possible that changing the engine timing on his own tractor makes a farmer a criminal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/02\/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-nightmare-farmers\/\">New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers | WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturers have every legal right to put a password or an encryption over the tECU. Owners, on the other hand, don\u2019t have the legal right to break the digital lock over their own equipment. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act\u2014a 1998 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14880\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[430,945,47],"class_list":["post-14880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-dmca","tag-drm","tag-monopolistic-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14882,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880\/revisions\/14882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}