Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The DMCA Eats Kittens. I Have Proof.
Well, okay, I lied. Maybe not kittens. YET. But maybe cars:
Right-To-Repair Act Proposed... for Cars
So apparently a non-dealer car shop breaking the encryption on your car engine's computer so they can repair it is a violation of the DMCA. Yeah. Encrypting the diagnostic chip in your car engine to lock out non-dealer service people. Brilliant. Ever get the feeling that in the war of the pirates and rip-off-artists versus the businesses, creators, and producers of the world, the consumers are the ones taking the most casualties?
You know, what's really needed here is consumer education. This is the first I have heard of this practice. Why is that? You'd think that the competition would have a field day making this known - unless they all do the same thing.
Hat tip to GamePolitics.
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- posted by The Rampant Coyote @ 6:22 AM (Permalink)
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Yeah! That's how to save the sagging U.S. auto industry, by making it vastly more difficult and expensive to fix your car!
While I agree about education in general, "consumer education" is too last century to be of use.
What I mean is, it seems that the bigger organizations (RIAA/MPAA/BSA/etc) would like it if copyright education was basically "how to teach consumers how to consume the right way".
These days, EVERYONE is a producer, and yet not everyone has access to expensive lawyers and can easily understand copyright law. As far as most people are concerned, copyright is a tool used by big businesses to make them more money at the expense of everyday people.
And this latest abuse of copyright, using it to lock-in service work for dealers only, only furthers this viewpoint.
I recently wrote about these very problems when commenting on the BSA's latest Global Piracy Study at http://gbgames.com/blog/2009/05/2008-global-software-piracy-study/
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What I mean is, it seems that the bigger organizations (RIAA/MPAA/BSA/etc) would like it if copyright education was basically "how to teach consumers how to consume the right way".
These days, EVERYONE is a producer, and yet not everyone has access to expensive lawyers and can easily understand copyright law. As far as most people are concerned, copyright is a tool used by big businesses to make them more money at the expense of everyday people.
And this latest abuse of copyright, using it to lock-in service work for dealers only, only furthers this viewpoint.
I recently wrote about these very problems when commenting on the BSA's latest Global Piracy Study at http://gbgames.com/blog/2009/05/2008-global-software-piracy-study/
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