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Spotify will kill Car Thing units later this year, tells owners to throw them away (9to5google.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

We really need a law for that. They should have to either

  • buy them back
  • make sure they work for a sufficiently long time after the last unit was sold (e.g. 5 years)
  • make the software open source so the community can maintain the software (if even possible, cause the community won't be able to work on the server side)
  • release an offline patch that makes the device work even after servers have been shut down if that makes sense for the device in question (applies mostly to always-online single player games)