Comment on Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• rem26_art@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  man, remember when you could buy a car and it wasnt connected to the internet?

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Remember when you could buy a car and it was yours?

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      John Deere doesn’t

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    • nephs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Remember when you could download a car?

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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  • OrderedChaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pepperidge farms remembers.

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• archomrade@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What a load of horse shit.

  Just like with hue, and Chromecast, and Android TV, and a million other smart devices, it’s perfectly lawful (and IMHO necessary) for individuals to launch their own integrations with their the products they own. People don’t need their bullshit “service”, and by buying the vehicle they have a legally protected right to alter it and it’s software for their own use.

  That they bullied this guy into taking down the repo despite what the law protects him to do is disgusting, if not also predictable.

  I hope someone with the time and resources goes to the matt with one of these shit companies and make them own up to their exploitative practices.

  I for one will be altering my Mazda how I want and sharing my alterations to get around their shit subscription model with everyone I can.

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• the_third@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Then charge me 5€/month and give me an access token. Fuckers.

  But likely, having whatever data the app collects is deemed more valuable than that.

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• agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  God forbid. Wouldn’t want users to find any of this useful in novel ways. Because that never makes a product popular or anything. And Mazda might lose hundreds of dollars or something. Gasp.

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• friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pretty soon we’ll have to subscribe to our car’s trunk.

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  • synestine@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    BMW on the line for you, sir.

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    2018-2021

    cnet.com/…/amazon-key-in-car-delivers-right-to-yo…

    cnbc.com/…/amazon-ends-service-that-delivers-pack…

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    • deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How far can americans go in their struggle against small mailboxes? I mean, what other solution is there, with their huge, largely-empty front lawns, than to use a car to accept the packages?

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