How John Deere Robs Farmers Of $4 Billion A Year

John Deere is costing American farmers $4.2 billion a year by restricting them from fixing their own tractors. Apple, Amazon and major automakers use the same strategies on everything you own. It's bad for consumers and local mechanics, but excellent for corporate profits.

00:00 Intro
01:50 John Deere's Repair Monopoly
05:27 Property Rights Explainer
08:59 Car Repair Monopolies
11:26 Other Anti-Repair Strategies
12:15 Anti-trust Enforcement & Copyright Reform
13:21 The Right To Repair Movement
15:35 Data Safety
18:25 Walter's Story
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[willgetbettereventually]

We live in a crooked world ruined by corporate greed.

[justincoombs]

The word "Buy" needs to be a legally protected word.

[rob.saldana]

having repair restrictions on medical devices is supervillain level of evil

[bartolomeus]

Restricting right to repair should be illegal. In Poland, there is a huge scandal right now, because train manufacturer, Newag, introduced in the train's software an instruction causing the train to break down randomly, forcing their customers to use only authorized mechanics employed by Newag. And they are trying to sue hackers who exposed them. Corporate greed makes everything worse.

[michaelmokotong]

$250 billion fine is in order. Boycott John Deere.

[muskybites]

I work at a farm and my boss won’t touch a new tractor for anything. Our newest tractor is a 70’s and we have a couple from the 50’s. Planned obsolescence needs to be ended. The world is upside down…

[aitordotco]

And this, my friends, is how money moves from the poor to the billionaires.

[chucknorris]

My Grandfather has an old Ferguson with a Perkins Diesel from 1965!!! And that thing works perfectly fine till this day! Keep the old stuff alive!

[attemptityourself]

Buying isnt owning. Piracy isnt theft. The motto of the video game industry for a decade will slowly expand to every facet of life if people dont stand up to corporations, fast.

[RoastyToasty]

nice to see real journalism still exists

[crispy]

Right to Repair needs to be standard in every industry. Otherwise, they're holding consumers hostage.

[CalipSS]

It's so refreshing to watch real journalism at work.

[MrSkipturner]

I literally had this happen this year. 80 acres of hay got ruined and then cost $5000 to fix tractor.

[BillyP]

This is journalism at its best, kudos to the young lady reporting on this criminal behaviour.

[plexi-kd]

This comes to me as HUGE surprise! We were told John Deer was the worlds best tractors. I'am devastated to the bone! Thanks for sharing!

[thatjeff]

The funny thing that I've heard is Polish farmers have figured out how to bypass John Deere's software lockout and are helping American farmers how to do it as well.

[egg]

This is by far some of the best journalism I've ever seen

[SF-guos]

The greed of these companies makes me sick

[TheDairyKing]

From a farming family this has been a issue for a while and I’m glad people are putting eyes on this because it goes into our life more than people realize

[Scott-degt]

Our legal system sold out to corporations a long time ago, and it just keeps getting worse.