Console Makers FIGHTING Repair Laws

Yes Jon.  Swear a lot is a good option :)

Are the manufactures worried that if you open up a console 1000s of nails will shoot out from the console. 

Hell yes you should be able to fix your own console.  Are the console markers trying to say we don't own the hardware we buy?  Since we can do what we please with our own personal property.   

I see a console as a specialized computer and I fix my computer and others all the time.  The equivalent to this I think is Microsoft or any computer manufacture locking down their hardware and you have to send it off to get it fixed, which isn't a thing.   

I have just added an ssd to my pc.  Glad I did not die... xD

What if someone opens up the console and eats one of the computer chips? That can be dangerous.

Yes, I want to be able to "allowed" to repair my OWN stuff. It's ridiculous that this question even needs to be asked. The only rule is that, yes, we void the warranty by doing so.

In college, my 360 broke down. I looked the problem up online, seemed related to the disk drive. So I ordered a new disk drive, popped open my 360 and installed it myself. It was a good experience.

It's great that manufacturers can take care of these things for us, but demanding that they're they only ones "allowed" to take care of it for us is absurd. I don't like the idea of them having that kind of power over our own property. This type of mentality has already caused headaches like crazy unreasonable DRM. They need to stop trying to screwing over their customers to make up for their own shortcomings.

My best guess at their argument for it being potentially "harmful" is that there could be sharp internal parts that could cut you. Or perhaps a charged capacitor could give you a little zap. As most people would intuitively assume, these are silly, desperate ideas. They're grasping at straws because they know they don't have a good argument.

The right to repair your own  stuff is innate in so much of life we kinda forget about it but I darn socks, resew buttons on clothes, fix plastering on my walls, adjust and maintain my plumbing, repair floorboards, rehang doors, revarnish and fix tables and chairs, clean out old ball mice, clean and upgrade my PC, rebuild shelvings, replace lightbulbs in their fixtures, reglue shoes and cracked crockery and a miriad of other things all the time...

In fact if I asked the manufacturers of most of these things to do this for me they would just laugh at me (though they might well take my money too!), especially things like replacing a light bulb in a fixture; but think of of the safety hazards, they get really hot and you could burn yourself, you might eat the old bulb or smash it... if I were a BABY (well, I certainly have no doubt my own would at least try all of those things given the chance! :D - quick we need to mandate that lighting fixture manufacturers are the only ones allow to replace light bulbs in their products! *watches the world go dark as the manufacturers fail to do their job... not entirely unlike current monopolising manufacturers*

If the warranty is void then it's no longer the manufacturers concern. If the manufacturer wants to be branded amongst the worst ecologically friendly companies in the world (and join the mining and oil companies) then so be it but to try to deny people the right to make the world a better place, repair and reuse more and consume and junk less is tantamount to acknowledging that they have no interest in consumers, the world or the future, only on the big pile of cash they are swimming in the here and now - Greedy reprobates, the lot of them.