<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;future_tense&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;13&#x2F;copyright_law_shouldn_t_keep_me_from_fixing_a_tractor.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;future_tense&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;13&#x2F;copyright...</a><p>&quot;I’m a repairman. I recognize broken things when I see them. I got into this fight because I wanted to help people repair their broken stuff. Turns out, copyright law is the thing that was broken all along.&quot;<p>The problem is, as perceived by me and some others, that the patent system isn&#x27;t functioning as intended.<p>It needs to get fixed. Part of that could probably be reducing the restrictions on individual manufacturing, even though, taken as a mass event, that defeats the forbidding power of patents. Other parts could be decreasing the time period for patent enforcement, adding requirements for patent holders - to, e.g., diminish problems with &quot;patent trolls&quot;. Yet another could be admitting that patents in different areas work differently - a software patent (which today doesn&#x27;t really justify its existence) is a very different thing than a pharmaceutical patent.