Yeah I'm familiar with the John Deere vendor lock-in and rip-off model of repair. The DMCA and other legislation has been used to stifle customer-based repair options by companies like JD claiming their proprietary tools are software are being violated by third party repair parts and services which simply isn't true. Their software was augmented with this bullshit solely to lock-out third party repairs and force customers to go through JD at exorbitant dollar amounts to simply discover what may be wrong with the equipment. Same goes for those McDonald's shake machines. Cracking and/or reverse engineering their software to put more options in the hands of customers is not what they want so they use their strong arm tactics and legislative capture to remove any and all competition in the repair space. They are the epitome of jewed up companies preying on their customer base to get as much blood, tears and money from them. Congress enables them since the long nose tribe sticks together. 110 times will hopefully be the highest number we will need to count to when dealing with this sort of avarice and corruption.