{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowing-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fstate-of-iron-who-owns-your-tractor-jOAATqq_","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"State of Iron: Who Owns Your Tractor?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fa356cd-6e54-41a2-bbf4-99a91ee4ce68/ea98cf1c-09f9-4494-bb05-faefe56f245b/state_of_iron_who_owns_your_tractor_podcast_cover.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Dan Aberhart hosts Cory Doctorow -- author, journalist, and special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation -- for a State of Iron live briefing on right-to-repair and digital sovereignty in agriculture. The anchor event is the John Deere $99 million right-to-repair settlement, but Doctorow's central argument is that the settlement addresses a symptom, not the cause. The cause is Canada's Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-11, 2012), which makes it illegal to bypass digital locks on any device -- including farm equipment -- even when the purpose is legal repair or the installation of superior third-party components. Doctorow ties parts pairing, farm data harvesting, and the remote immobilization of stolen Ukrainian tractors into a single argument about technological self-determination, names the specific Canadian organizations working on the issue, and closes with a call for farmers to use their political power -- citing the Grangers' 1890 fight with the railroads as the historical template that produced the Sherman Act. Cory closed by sharing he had just found out he is cancer-free, that enshittification entered the Oxford English Dictionary that week, and that his new book was the Number 1 bestseller in Canada."}