“It’s scary to think that you could buy a piece of medical equipment for your hospital, just to have the manufacturer wake up one day and decide they will monopolize all repairs for that product,” Nathan Proctor, senior director of consumer rights group PIRG’s campaign for the right to repair, told 404 Media. “The people who are trained to fix that equipment won’t suddenly forget all they know, but they will suddenly be restricted from doing the repairs. I think that’s just absurd.”

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