Remind me again who signed the DMCA in 1998?

Because she is NOT Hillary Clinton.

Do you mean the team the was formerly Honda and is now Mercedes?
A team that was in existence for a single season.
Just long enough for Jenson Button to prove that with the right equipment he could win races and a championship?
With Button as the primary and Rubens Barrichello as the second driver they proved to be one very good team.
The TEAM wrapped up the constructors championship the same weekend in Brazil as Jenson did, before the final race of the season.
A race team so good Mercedes bought a majority stake in it when the season was over?
That Brawn racing?
Yes, I do.

What right to repair laws do you speak of?
AFAIK Massachusetts is the ONLY state to actually have a right to repair law and that was ballot initiative.
There is no law at the federal level, just an agreement.
The Automotive manufactures agreed to a DEAL, htttp://www.autonews.com/article/20140125/RETAIL05/301279936/automakers-agree-to-right-to-repair-deal
Why do you think there are so many states with right to repair legislation?
It is because of what John Deere is doing now. You can fix your tractor but until John Deere authorizes the part it won't run.
At anytime the Automotive industry can do the same thing and the DMCA would allow them to do it.

The DMCA, Providing bad law for over 20 years.

Until the car companies pull a John Deere and claim DMCA.
You must now use only authorized repair facilities to get your car serviced, parts are now covered by the DMCA.
That is what John Deere is doing which is what sparked the right to repair bills in a lot of farm states.

Lexmark abused the DMCA about 10 years ago and lost in court.
Now they are trying the same thing with patents.
If Lexmark wins this we all lose.

The DMCA, providing bad law for over 20 years.

Have you ever used any Fed Ex software?
Their Ship Manager software takes longer to load than the competitors (big brown truck) ship software.
Their update process for the software is terrible.
Even the web based version leaves a lot to be desired.
Doubtful they will ever hire competent developers given the state of the ship software.
Glad we do a majority of our shipping with the other guys.

True, but renting is the word that best comes to mind to describe what is happening.
It is not really a lease, as when the lease is up you return the item or vacate the property.
The whole point is that what Lexmark and John Deere are both saying is that you do not own what you bought and paid for they do.
In the case of Lexmark they are using patents in an attempt to circumvent existing law.
John Deere is using the DMCA in the same perverted way Lexmark did.

True, but who's to say that Case or International Harvester or any other farm equipment maker isn't going to try the same thing as John Deere.
They may think John Deere got away with it, look at all the money we are leaving on the table and then go and do the same thing.

You are correct, patents and copyrights are both problematic and will continue to be.
Lexmark used the DMCA several years ago to do the same thing against Static Controls and re-manufactured ink cartridges.
They lost then, now they are giving patents a try for the same thing.
If Lexmark wins, we all loose.
This will be just like John Deere is with their tractors, see the article titled "Why American Farmers are hacking their own Tractors" a couple of articles below this one. Spend 150K on a piece of Farm equipment that is not really yours, you are just renting it, if you use it for a purpose not authorized by them they will brick it.
Pretty soon Ford, GM et al will be claiming that the money you paid for that sporty CAR is only for the right to drive it a specific way, on roads they tell you can drive on and you must take the vehicle to the dealer for service since you don't really own it, you are just renting it.

You just described the Lawyers from the Prenda Law firm. I read somewhere that Paul Hansmeier was running a ADA shake down in Minnesota before his arrest.

In California the hourly employee gets overtime for anytime over eight hours in a day. Even if it is 6 minutes you better be paying them. Where it really gets messed up is if they work a Saturday. They must have worked 40 hours during the week to get overtime. If they only worked 39 hours during the week, one of the hours worked on Saturday is regular time, the remainder of the time worked that day would be considered overtime. The bad part is that 8 hours of Holiday pay doesn't count as part of the 40 hours worked during the week. So they work the Saturday following Memorial Day or any other Holiday it is straight time.
If the employer gets caught shorting the employee on overtime the employer is going to have a problem.
If your time clock and payroll are done by an outside agency you still have the responsibility to review what you are paying your employees. These outside agencies that do payroll using a time clock and software to manage the clock. They use rounding to do the time calculations of the punches received from the clock. In a previous version that we used where I work I saw an employee clocked for a eight hour day and the software said pay him for 8.1 hours. When you looked at the punches recorded it was 8 hours exactly. The software was rounding up by 6 minutes so it was giving him 6 minutes overtime. We paid him for it, it is much cheaper in the long run. We generally use what the software says, again it is cheaper in the long run to just pay it.

looks that way.

Here are the links as text: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/...
http://modernfarmer.com/2016/0...
http://www.npr.org/sections/al...

Exactly.
John Deere is using copyright and the DMCA to keep the farmers who spend 150K+ on their tractor or farm equipment from working on their own property.
Or is it really the farmers property? Apparently not according to Deere.
That is why these bills are in farm country, the populous of these states don't care about game consoles or Blu Ray players, a tractor, absolutely, a game console not so much.
The farmers want to be able to work on their property, Deere says otherwise.
Take a read here: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/...
here: http://modernfarmer.com/2016/0...
and here http://www.npr.org/sections/al...
All because software is used in a number of places in the vehicle ...
Automobiles, now also because of software, are covered under the DMCA , can Ford or GM now claim the same as Deere?
Sorry, but you really don't own that Ford GT 350 or that Corvette Sting Ray you think you own.
How long before Ford, GM or any other automobile manufacturer for that matter do what Deere has done?
The fact that they can do this, should scare anyone.
That is why this type of legislation is needed everywhere.
It is not about game consoles, it is about much, much more.
The DMCA was bad legislation 20 years ago when it was passed.
This really proves it.

So we both agree that Al Gore had nothing to do with the funding or research that created the internet.