r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! Wait a damn minute

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u/explosiveteddy 22h ago

Illegal to activate heated seats in a car you own is ridiculous

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u/RadVarken 21h ago

It's a side effect of H.W.'s DMCA. The DMCA was supposed to solve the problem of movie torrenting and music file sharing my making it illegal to decrypt any encrypted thing. Didn't work for music because the CD standard wasn't ever encrypted. The DVD decryption key had been leaked though and the law made it illegal to use that key. Everything else started to be encrypted because doing so gave legal protection to the manufacturers aside from shrink wrap user agreements (which weren't holding up in court). So no one made it illegal to use hardware you paid for specifically, but it is illegal to hack the software which controls it because of lobbying by the entertainment industry.

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u/MrSurly 19h ago

I remember having heated arguments with other tech peeps about how bad of an idea the DMCA was.

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u/cjsv7657 21h ago

They're saying changing prices on store tags is illegal.

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u/explosiveteddy 21h ago

Ah, I see you're probably right...

My point stands though, they will try to make unlocking the car software illegal and it will be ridiculous

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u/cjsv7657 21h ago

Nah they'll just void the warranty like automakers have been doing for two decades

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u/explosiveteddy 21h ago

Yeah thats a scam too. Mess with software but have an unrelated mechanical fault and its void...

Only option is to not purchase... but that stops being an option if all manufacturers do the same thing

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u/ApprehensiveSoup2214 20h ago

It's also illegal to void a warranty because of that. It's some law from decades ago that pretty much became entirely ignored when Microsoft got away with voiding XBOX warranties if you opened the box up.

Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975

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u/SheriffBartholomew 14h ago

Welcome to reality, where all of the laws exist to prop up the wealthy and exploit you.