I wish I could go back to 1998 or so when the DMCA was being passed. First, so I could buy some Apple stock.

But second, so I could rub in people’s faces how right I was when I warned that the DMCA would be applied to objects like cars and non-internet devices like tractors.

This news has been out there a while, but it is equally appalling each time.

Back to my desire for a time machine, though. Just as with renewables, when I brought up that the DMCA would inevitably be applied to more than software and websites, I was told that I was being an “idiot,” that it’d never happen, that it just wasn’t possible, that such thoughts were foolish to even consider.

But it was self-evident in how the law was written, and now here we are with farmers who are legally impeded from repairing their own equipment.

Am constantly surprised by people’s lack of grasp of the obvious.