DIY tinkerer invents MacBook tool that breaks Apple’s repair locks::“To whoever it is at Apple who decided to not make this available to technicians, ‘Fuck you, we win.’”
so apple put a DRM on a glorified reed switch? and it’s legal somehow?
Laws exist for everyday people like you and me, not for megacorps like Apple. Laws and regulations are just minor business expenses to them.
A fine is just an calculable price to do something wrong, businesses love them, from the classic study:
https://rady.ucsd.edu/_files/faculty-research/uri-gneezy/fine.pdf
Parents used to arrive late to collect their children, forcing a teacher to stay after closing time. We introduced a monetary fine for late-coming parents. As a result, the number of late-coming parents increased significantly.
