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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

Trump reneged on America's obligations to its trading partners, just like he reneged on every deal he's ever made: pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/t... The good news is, this means we can have VCRs again! 80/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

All it will take is for one (or more) countries to decide to lift its one-sided restrictions on making technologies "capable of sustaining a substantial non-infringing use." 81/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

Then just wait while one (or more) entrepreneurs figure out that reintroducing the VCR is a winner, just like it was in the 1970s, when the VCR was the fastest-adopted technology in the history of the world. 82/

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Victor Luftig @vl1959.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

But wouldn't the US just bar import/use of that country's tech?

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