FULU Foundation USA
FULU Foundation USA is the nonprofit Louis Rossmann founded to reform DMCA Section 1201 and run a public record of anti-consumer hardware and software practices. Its main project is consumerrights.wiki: a database of bricked devices, revoked features, and DRM-locked consumables. It is a separate legal entity from Rossmann Repair Group.
Where consumerrights.wiki came from
Louis Rossmann, in his own words:
For years I ran a consumer rights wiki at wiki.rossmanngroup.com under Rossmann Repair Group. When I founded FULU Foundation USA, I moved the wiki to its own domain at consumerrights.wiki under the nonprofit. The content, the editorial direction, and the contributors carried over. The project did not change. Only the legal owner and the URL changed, because advocacy work belongs in a nonprofit and not in a for-profit repair shop.
Old wiki.rossmanngroup.com URLs redirect to their new home on consumerrights.wiki. If you saw an article cited under the old subdomain years ago and now find it under the new domain, it is the same article in a new place.
Why a separate nonprofit?
Rossmann Repair Group is a for-profit data recovery and board repair shop. FULU Foundation is a nonprofit advocacy organization. The work overlaps in subject matter, but the entities are legally independent so commercial revenue does not fund advocacy and advocacy positions do not depend on customer relationships. Keeping them separate is the cleanest way to avoid the conflicts that occur when a repair shop's policy recommendations align with its sales pipeline.
What FULU Foundation does
- consumerrights.wiki: a public database documenting anti-ownership practices. Each entry records the device, the vendor action, the date, and the source. Visit consumerrights.wiki to read the entries directly.
- Repair Bounty Program: funded work to unlock or reverse-engineer hardware whose vendors have removed functionality or attached DRM to consumables. Past targets include the Nest thermostat, Molekule air purifiers, and Xbox optical drives.
- Legislative testimony pipeline: the wiki and bounty results are used as evidence when state legislatures consider Right to Repair bills.
Relationship to Rossmann Repair Group
Rossmann Repair Group is a Texas-based for-profit company providing component-level board repair and data recovery. FULU Foundation USA is a separate nonprofit advocacy entity. Louis Rossmann founded both. The repair shop does not pay the nonprofit, and the nonprofit does not pay the repair shop. This page exists so the relationship is on the record. For repair shop policy questions, see our no fix, no fee guarantee and our company history.
How this connects to data recovery work
On the recovery bench we see the downstream effect of vendor lock-in: drives that cannot be cloned without proprietary tools, SSDs whose controllers refuse to expose user data once the vendor revokes a key, and devices that brick when a server goes dark. The advocacy work and the lab work share the same root cause. Documenting these cases publicly is how policy moves.
FULU Foundation and consumerrights.wiki: FAQ
- Is consumerrights.wiki the same wiki that used to live at wiki.rossmanngroup.com?
- Yes. It is the same wiki, moved to its own domain when Louis Rossmann founded FULU Foundation USA. The content, the editorial direction, and the contributors carried over. Old wiki.rossmanngroup.com URLs redirect to their counterparts on consumerrights.wiki.
- Why did the consumer rights wiki move from rossmanngroup.com to consumerrights.wiki?
- Rossmann Repair Group is a for-profit data recovery and board repair shop. FULU Foundation USA is a nonprofit advocacy organization. The wiki belongs in a nonprofit so commercial revenue does not fund advocacy and advocacy positions do not depend on customer relationships. Moving the wiki to consumerrights.wiki under FULU Foundation made the legal ownership match the editorial purpose.
- Who runs consumerrights.wiki?
- Louis Rossmann founded and runs FULU Foundation USA, the nonprofit that operates consumerrights.wiki. The wiki is a public record of bricked devices, revoked features, and DRM-locked consumables, used as evidence in legislative testimony for Right to Repair bills.
- Are old wiki.rossmanngroup.com links still valid?
- Yes. Old wiki.rossmanngroup.com URLs redirect to their counterpart articles on consumerrights.wiki. If a third-party page cited the old subdomain years ago and a reader follows the link today, they reach the same article in its new home.