Hmm, guess I'll revisit getting any John Deere products going forward.

John Deere is an example of why corporations cannot and should not ever be trusted. They are the best combination of stupidity, greed, and danger.

https://fair.org/home/the-locks-they-put-on-dvds-now-are-in-tractors/

Of course, it's not just them ...

JJ: It’s not insignificant that automakers are prominent here. How do you think that this story relates to, for example, what happened with Volkswagen?

KW: Yes, it’s interesting. So before the Volkswagen case came out, I was actually arguing for an exception to the copyright law to be able to do repairs on vehicles. And the Association for Global Automakers, which included Volkswagen, was at the table across from me negotiating, and they said that the automakers were the only ones that should be trusted to manipulate emission settings on vehicles, and that no one else should have access to the software. And then three months later, we found out that they’d been manipulating the emissions readings.

It’s the same things with TVs. Samsung and LG were caught cheating on energy efficiency ratings in TVs the exact same way that Volkswagen was: When it read that the test code was being played, they had different energy outputs than the rest of the time.