What part of “it’s a violation of people’s property rights to try to extract rent for the thing they already own” do you not fucking understand?
It doesn’t fucking matter what the feature is. Either get that through your skull, or STFU.
ECU hacks exists since decades ago…
They call it unlock
Yeah, no shit ECU tuning has long been a thing. I’ve got a '98 VW with an ECU tune myself.
The thing is, they’re calling this outrage an “unlock” because they’re charging for it, which is obviously the essential difference. They are attempting to colonize your property in order to charge you rent for something you are already entitled to do!
I repeat, that this is not something like heated seats or android auto/car play support (BMW did those as a subscription), something that renders the car almost useless if removed.
This is exactly like those things, because they are restricting access to stuff that is already rightfully yours. It doesn’t fucking matter whether the feature is important or not; the only consideration is that the car came with it which means you already paid for it, and they’re trying to make you pay for it again.
How the fuck are you still failing to understand how beyond the pale this THEFT OF YOUR RIGHTS is?!
No, that’s absolute bullshit.
In your example, they absolutely and unequivocally bought all 200 HP, from the beginning, and merely got a good deal on it if VW charged a lower price than the identical car with different number on the label. But it was always their property from the beginning because that’s how property works.
They owe VW nothing after the fact, and always had the capital-r Right to use every bit of horsepower the engine was physically capable of!
The only reason someone could possibly disagree is if they’re a corporate whore who hates property rights and loves being subjugated. It is not a tenable position for any reasonable person to have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
I wish Linux was enough to protect us from this shit, but it’s not.
Okay, but hear me out: the notion that a business model is “cheaper” doesn’t matter if it’s also criminal because it violates their customers’ property rights.
Why shouldn’t I break into your house, change the locks, and then charge you a ransom to get access to it back?
'Cause that’s what VW is doing here.
It’s like they don’t realise they don’t own the car once it’s been sold.
They literally don’t. This is nothing less than a war on property rights.
What’s to stop someone just hacking it and unlocking it?
The DMCA Anti-Circumvention Clause makes it a felony.
Is that subscription for OnStar or Super Cruise? One is a service with legitimate ongoing operating costs; the other is not.
GPU passthrough might help?
The last version I’ll ever install was 7, so I guess they’re back to lying!
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/605/
So what you’re saying is that we need federated git.
Apparently it’s just because it happens to be the same colors as the trans pride flag.
Agriculture is a Hell of a drug.
These are criminal violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Jail the motherfucking felon CEOs!
Fuck off, property-rights-hating shill! You are not only wrong but dangerously so, and there is absolutely nothing you could ever write that could ever change my mind.