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posted by martyb on Thursday January 09 2020, @09:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the tough-row-to-hoe dept.

Digital Rights/Restrictions Management (DRM) technologies affecting new tractors are behind the continuing rise in popularity of the models. Particularly in the midwest, farmers are finding that 40-year-old tractors do the job with less trouble and expense.

Tractors manufactured in the late 1970s and 1980s are some of the hottest items in farm auctions across the Midwest these days — and it's not because they're antiques.

Cost-conscious farmers are looking for bargains, and tractors from that era are well-built and totally functional, and aren't as complicated or expensive to repair as more recent models that run on sophisticated software.

"It's a trend that's been building. It's been interesting in the last couple years, which have been difficult for ag, to see the trend accelerate," said Greg Peterson, the founder of Machinery Pete, a farm equipment data company in Rochester with a website and TV show.

Previously;
Reeducating Legislators on the Right to Repair (2019)
John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair (2018)
US Copyright Office Says People Have the Right to Hack their Own Cars' Software (2015)


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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday January 09 2020, @11:25PM (3 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday January 09 2020, @11:25PM (#941670) Journal

    You need to put in a master switch for all the electrics. Or just pull the cable from the battery's negative terminal.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10 2020, @12:30AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10 2020, @12:30AM (#941708)

    If you disconnect the battery on a USA-spec car the computer will "reset" and you will have to drive some distance (50-70 miles??) before the emissions system self-tunes to the car. In that interval the car probably won't pass any emissions testing (required in my state for the annual inspection).

    And of course you will probably lose time on the car clock, and the radio might go into self-protect mode and require unlocking with a passcode before it will work. All of the above happened on my 2009 when I changed the battery. There are probably more things to go wrong with power outage on newer cars.

    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday January 10 2020, @02:12AM

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday January 10 2020, @02:12AM (#941741) Journal

      I think we're in trouble [gstatic.com]

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10 2020, @08:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10 2020, @08:12AM (#941805)

      At least that is all you had. I mentioned on a different story having to have my mechanic come out and do something with his scan tool and a procedure off of Alldata before I could start my car. At least the radio remembered the time and presets.