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DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

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Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

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DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Financial risk too great for dev working "in my spare time to help others."

Mazda is angry a customer used an API in a manner they couldn’t control. You can read the DMCA takedown notice here.

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    Lol no it wouldn’t. The guy doesn’t want to commit resources to fight this, since it’s a hobby project and this sucked away his motivation to continue.

    Unless y’all give him enough money to mount a legal defense, no amount of fancy tech will help.

    While not exactly this situation, it has similar vibes to this: https://xkcd.com/538/

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      Oh god.

      Federation is going to become the next blockchain thing that people have no idea what it does but insist it’ll fix everything, isnt it?

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        it already is.

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          Except the use case it was designed for is actually used…

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      I think he only means in a literal sense. If the thing is copied a ton of times to several repositories, it becomes harder to expunge it entirely. Legal battles notwithstanding.

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