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Mazda's $10 subscription for remote start sparks backlash after killing open source workaround via DMCA takedown (www.carscoops.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Step 1: Kill a free open-source app with a bogus DMCA takedown
Step 2: Sell the same feature as a $10/mo. subscription.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20749171

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Welp, there goes any chances of buying a mazda. They think I'm going to go verify if a given model has this, or expect them not to slip it in eventually.

Fuck these car companies

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sometimes i think to start a blacklist of car brands, for whenever i end up buying my next car, but i fear it would simply amount to "all of them" in the end.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

But that's the thing we need to work to determine which brands don't do this and give them business not just resign that they all do it

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