Right-to-repair advocates believe that car owners should have full ownership of the technology embedded in their vehicles

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPM
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    2 months ago

    Additionally the “workaround” that someone provided still uses those connected services <…>

    It literally didn’t. All it used was API endpoint, which by definition is not proprietary.

    “right to repair”

    Right to repair is about ownership. If a company can take away features or product you paid for, you don’t own it, you rent it.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah the problem is Mazda was abusing the DMCA instead of setting up their API properly. The API should fail if you try to use it without a subscription. It seems like this check was done elsewhere, which is just bad design. And then they used the legal system to cover it up.