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Is Our Gear… Ours? | Modding, Firmware & Who Owns Your Gear
This week we're taking a slightly wider look at something that's been happening around Elektron and modified firmware.The immediate question is about sharing firmware mods and the tools and instructions needed to use them. But that opens up a much bigger conversation about ownership.If you buy a piece of hardware, what are you actually entitled to do with it?Can you modify it? Reverse engineer it? Share your discoveries? Keep an old machine alive after the manufacturer has stopped supporting it?And then there's the other side. Firmware isn't necessarily yours, modifications can brick…
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