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

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

  • @CookieOfFortuneEnglish
    1•2 hours 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.