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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)

submitted 3 months ago by ArchRecord@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 100 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Piracy is how you got Netflix.

This is how we'll change the pharmaceutical industry. They'll overreact and Streisand Effect this and it'll blow up. Become normalized. The open source tech will improve.

This is a good thing. Period.

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Pirating movies and games can't kill you

Home brewing seizure medication can

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 65 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

This is America dude. Human life costs $7.25 an hour here. We can't even do anything to keep children safe from their number 1 killer here.

Nobody cares. Those who do care are completely powerless to change anything.

Yes. Mistakes will happen. People will die. People die every day right now. Many of them because they can't afford life saving medicine. I'd happily take a risk on this before I'd saddle my family with $50,000 a month for medicine that you can get in Canada or Mexico for $50.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

We can't even do anything to keep children safe from their number 1 killer here.

By this the parent commenter means "car crashes," by the way. Car dependent zoning is literally mass-murdering more children than school shooters ever did and we're doing almost nothing to fix it.

[–] obbeel 3 points 3 months ago

I personally think open source software and hardware is a good starting point to making DIY stuff legal in the future.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The all new sudafeb....like Sudafed but with a D at the end because they're chemically the same just with a D at the end.

[–] dovahking@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wish there was some kind of open source collective organization under which you could release anything with eternal open source license that'd be free forever. It could be anything from software, tech or medicine like penicillin so that megacorps could not benefit from it in any way.

[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

The Open Source Initiative has a giant list of licenses that anyone can use to make their works fully open-source.

Some are just for code, but I'm sure they could be adapted to things like medicine, if needed.