«it’s not like the Russians will be returning any of these tractors to their rightful owners now that they’ve found they can’t use them. Simply depriving Ukrainians of their own property is a huge blow to them, and the looters may still profit from their thievery by scavenging the tractors for parts and raw materials. So it’s not like John Deere and its embedded software, or the copyright in that software that gives it such control over its sold machines, have managed to right a serious wrong.»

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/05/no-software-bricked-tractors-thwarting-russian-looters-is-not-a-sign-that-either-john-deere-or-copyright-is-good/