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I THOUGHT JEREMY CLARKSON WAS OUT OF THAT BUSINESS .
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You can register using your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account, just click here.Talking this over on another automotive forum yesterday, we may be seeing the beginning of the end of private auto ownership. John Deere, among other manufacturers is claiming that you may buy one of there big tractors, but because of it's proprietary software load, they will retain "ownership" of the vehicle. Now GM is agreeing - it's all being perpetrated by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DCMA, a massive copyright regime passed by congress in 1998 that blurs the line between hardware and software.
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
The Cliff's on this proposal ends up being a case where you may have bought one of these incredibly expensive farm machines from John Deere, but that doesn't mean you actually own the license to it. GM, Ford and a number of other automakers are thinking along the same lines. There is now so much software code embedded inextricably in modern vehicles that purchasing one does not entitle you to ownership privileges of the hardware. You won't be able to tinker with it, you won't be able to modify it significantly, or even do much more than put gas in it and turn the key.
It appears the manufacturers are concerned with who gets stuck with the hot potato when the vehicle fails some federal standard test. If you've monkeyed with the hardware/software system, JD or GM doesn't know you. While it does make some kind of sense from the manufacturers standpoint of refusing to stand behind the work done by a private individual by enforcing an extended copyright law, the DMCA may make it illegal for you to do your own maintenance.
Your new car may own you, rather than vice-versa . . . in which case, Skynet has won.
Il est un monde choquant.Je trouve choquant!!!!! Sil vous p;ait!!!!
If you like, just remove the offending part and give it back to them. That's legal. Of course very few would consider that.What if your contract with the company says that a part of the car (that you couldn't drive without) belongs not to you, but the company? You can't replace it, because the company will know (many modern cars report data to the manufacturer) and their contract stays that you aren't supposed to.
That was/is the case with the Renault batteries (there are some great write-ups by "owners" of the car, but none in English). Even though copyright law doesn't really seem involved here, it is invoked by companies that want to bind you into never ending lease agreements and to charge you extra if you violate the agreement, for example by fast charging your batteries.
Just put it on my list "PumP', don't have to wait for the dvd Ill catch it the weekend- my profile gave it a 5 star-I just watched a movie named "pump" on netflix.
Along with the U.S. oil dependency and the ethanol/methanol alternative, it talks about the fact that most existing cars' software have the capacity to enable the cars to become "flex" vehicles with one simple click of a mouse, but that it's illegal to do that click.
It states that it's also illegal to put e85 into your vehicle unless it's specically marked for it.
I recommend the movie. It's one of the best of this type, and I've seen a few of them.