melroy@kbin.melroy.org to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world · 6 days agoVW introduces monthly subscription to increase car powerwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square158linkfedilinkarrow-up1563arrow-down17file-text
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-26 days ago It’s like they don’t realise they don’t own the car once it’s been sold. They literally don’t. This is nothing less than a war on property rights. What’s to stop someone just hacking it and unlocking it? The DMCA Anti-Circumvention Clause makes it a felony.
minus-squarechonkyninja@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·5 days agoMeet GPL. These fucking cars are running Linux.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-25 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization I wish Linux was enough to protect us from this shit, but it’s not.
They literally don’t. This is nothing less than a war on property rights.
The DMCA Anti-Circumvention Clause makes it a felony.
Meet GPL. These fucking cars are running Linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
I wish Linux was enough to protect us from this shit, but it’s not.