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Living Room / Re: Automakers Want to Outlaw Gearheads From Working on Their Own Cars
« on: April 28, 2015, 08:38 AM »In other words, they're using the DMCA in exactly the way it was intended.-Vurbal (April 22, 2015, 11:54 AM)
...As a blunt object with which the corporations could beat the common man into subjugation?-Stoic Joker (April 22, 2015, 02:14 PM)
Generally speaking, yes. More specifically, though, its purpose was always to give copyright holders a veto over innovation that interfered with their business model. I'm sure the automakers are fine with you modding your car's computer, but only so long as they can
Of course, even if the elderly history professor with sole responsibility for the decision (ie the Librarian Of Congress) sides with them, they still haven't accomplished anything besides chasing development of the programming software out of the US.
Well, technically, they'll also have angered the people who buy most of their aftermarket performance parts. Car nuts were well organized before the Internet. That has increased exponentially with online communities. This is an attack not only on them, but also on the multitude of small shops that cater to the performance tuning market.
Which reminds me, I'm almost out of popcorn.