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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by ryandrake on Friday December 27, 2024 @08:30PM (#42527755)
Expand this to any product. I should be able to use ANY product fully, without maintaining some kind of communication channel to and/or from the product's manufacturer. When I buy a hammer from Home Depot, I take it home and hammer with it. The manufacturer doesn't know I have it, doesn't know how many nails per month I hammer with it, how many swings it takes on average for me to drive in a nail, how often I use the claw side. They don't know if I use it for other purposes besides hammering nails. They don't know if I lend it to my neighbor. I can sell it to someone else without the manufacturer's permission.

Somehow hammer manufacturers can live with this. Why can't automakers, tech device manufacturers, and software developers live with this?

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by sudahtigabulan on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:06PM (#42528230)
Because they make products that are harder to replace with a better alternative. (they have a moat/lock-in).

Anyone that has built a moat/lock-in will, sooner or later, screw you over.

Hammer manufacturers would too, if they could. But hammers are simple devices.

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by cozzyd on Friday December 27, 2024 @09:30PM (#42528063)
Just wait....

"Your hammer has reached its monthly nail limit. Please upgrade to the pro plan to unlock an additional 60 nails"

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by vaindil on Saturday December 28, 2024 @12:12AM (#42528770)
I'm having a really fun time imagining how a hammer would physically prevent you from hammering a nail based on a subscription.
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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by cozzyd on Saturday December 28, 2024 @12:33AM (#42528851)
Handle has retractable spikes (digitally retractable mincers, perhaps?) to promote compliance.
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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by TeMPOraL on Saturday December 28, 2024 @03:12AM (#42529431)
They wouldn't. Instead, they'd try to keep charging you automatically for out-of-plan extra nailing, and if you denied them the ability to charge your CC, they'll put your debt to collections by the end of the month.
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