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The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions (www.motor1.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So far there's subscriptions for cruise control, adaptive beams, various navigation options, apple/google integration and my favorite, dual-zone climate.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nothing. And if they tried, you could sue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

>But what would prevent you legally from jailbreaking your own car?

the digital millenium copyright act of 1999

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't protect corps from you doing it privately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

it makes bypassing drm a felony

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If that was true, in the courts, then every jail broken iPhone user is a felon. Maybe that's true, maybe not, it doesn't matter because it's unenforceable and the govt doesn't give a fuck.