{
  "id": 8013263,
  "title": "People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/people-are-pissed-off-and-ready-to-own-their-shit",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-17T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Wired",
    "slug": "wired",
    "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/people-are-pissed-off-and-ready-to-own-their-shit/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Own Your Shit tour, a nationwide series of events, concluded its penultimate stop in San Jose, California. Organizer Louis Rossmann, a passionate advocate for ownership and repair, continues to speak despite the interruption of a nearby train's loud horn. The tour's main target is Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a law enacted in 1998 that prohibits bypassing digital restrictions on devices. Ownership advocates argue that the law allows companies to lock users out of their own hardware and charge for access. Rossmann and his nonprofit Fulu have started a bounty program for people who can disable these digital locks. At the San Jose event, Rossmann criticizes companies like Amazon and Sony for removing features and deleting digital content. He also calls out BMW for running ads on customers' dashboard screens and Apple for adding paid subscriptions to products. The tour coincides with growing anger among consumers over subscription services, rising device costs, and the inability to repair broken devices. Catherine Trendacosta, a policy advocate at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, points out that companies have turned many products into subscription-based services. The tour may be ending, but right-to-repair legislation is gaining traction worldwide, with the EU recently implementing new regulations to make products more repairable. California's newly established Business and Consumer Services Agency aims to crack down on unfair consumer practices and ensure technology benefits all users.",
  "summary": "A grassroots live tour by YouTuber Louis Rossmann highlights growing resistance to companies that keep people from controlling their devices.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}