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Yeah, Entertainment Software Association representing all three.
I'm less surprised by that than the exclusion of video game consoles.
Didn't know the Nintendo lobby was a formidable adversary up there.
It’s not like there was a Warren-level progressive in the running.
And if there were, we know from 2020 there'd still be cosplay communists insisting she wasn't progressive enough.
iFixit noted yesterday, "Though the bill is strong and should make repairs more available for everyone, it allows manufacturers to continue to engage in parts pairing, a practice by which they limit repairs with software blocks. They can also combine parts into expensive assemblies, which makes repairs more expensive."
Similarly doubt there's any way to legislate against the dismal engineering that tempts a failure avalanche like the Ford F150 taillight horrorshow I posted a few days ago.
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Midwest Farmers Aren't Allowed to Fix Their Own Tractors. And Many Right-to-Repair Bills Are Stalled.
(www.iowapublicradio.org)
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Recommend also the seminal TMRC dictionary for several terms absent here, plus some memorably elegant definitions:
Kludge: A crock that works.
Crock: A kludge that doesn't work.
Same again true of Peter Samson's original 1959 and 1960 editions.
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That would be after the low hanging fruit of Moldova. Neighbors Ukraine, Constitutionally neutral, does not admit stationing foreign military troops on its territory, can only be altered by referendum, and not at all during a state of national emergency, martial law or war.