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As a car guy, I fear this fraud is the symbolic fallen domino that will lead to the end of my hobby of tweaking the tunes on the ECU of my Subaru WRX STi.
by digitalneal 11y ago
As a car guy, I fear this fraud is the symbolic fallen domino that will lead to the end of my hobby of tweaking the tunes on the ECU of my Subaru WRX STi.
- sounds 11y agoHow will Volkswagen's cheating, or Eben Moglen for that matter, make it more difficult to tinker with your car? The Magnussen-Moss Act aside, auto makers seem to have failed to notice that DMCA-ing their software has not stopped tweakers and modders. It's so bad that John Deere doesn't want you to own your own tractor, just "license" it from them [1] (ostensibly so that they can refuse to let you look at the ECU). Would they take this step if they were confident in the DMCA's protections? Hollywood was the bellweather and tip-of-the-iceberg with DVD-CSS many years ago. [1] http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/ http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
- nutate 11y agoMissed in the media frenzy is that at least one company has offered a complete ECU upgrade for VW/Audi TDIs for a while: goapr.com ... plus homebrew. And VW never sicced DMCA on them.