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| eti:
Only a showoff or a mug buys Tesla. Virtue signalling is at its peak right now, no one is content unless you're vegan and driving an electric car. Sheesh. Idiocy has also peaked. |
| SiliconWizard:
Keep in mind a license is NOT ownership. It's just a limited right, under a number of clauses, to use something. Pretty different. |
| edy:
--- Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on February 09, 2020, 10:39:16 pm ---Tesla are using the same DRM model as many other tech companies, e.g. Amazon Kindle. If you "buy" a book on Kindle, you get considerably less rights than with a physical book. You can't transfer your Kindle license to another person, and Amazon can disable Kindles remotely. Being old school, I consider this outrageous, and no one in their right mind would buy into such a scheme. But millions do, and seem mostly happy with it, apart from the odd few who find out the hard way. --- End quote --- Hence the reason why as much as possible I find electronic versions of files that I can store locally and use without special software, whether it be PDF, MP3, FLAC, MP4, and every other type of sound/video/text/graphic media I can think of without DRM. All electronic pay-per-copy distribution schemes today have DRM built in to some degree to restrict piracy, but once you own the copy you are stuck to the particular device or platform forever. If something ever happens you lose it all. There should be a way to allow you to make local copies of your own media downloads that are watermarked with your name all over it, so that if you share it with anyone or it gets out on the web, they know who leaked it. That should hopefully restrict people from sharing stuff they buy. But on the other hand, if someone got a hand on your computer or hacked your account, they could grab all your media and put into a public folder for everyone in the world to download, and it would look like you did it and get you in trouble. Double-edged sword I guess. I see a couple of possible solutions to this Tesla-Dealer-Buyer menage-trois screw-up. Either the dealer refund $8000 to the buyer since they sold a car which is now no longer as described, or Tesla reinstates the $8000 worth of features to the buyer (for public relations purposes) and then slams the dealer with an $8000 bill or refuse to hand over any more cars to them. Or the owner will have to sue either Tesla, the Dealer or both and try to recoup the money (perhaps they split the difference... not sure exactly how much but I figure Tesla will probably take the bigger hit). There is probably something in the fine-print though for software that Tesla has the right to turn off or change things whenever they feel like and so they can probably legally wriggle their way out of this mess. However, it will be a public-relations nightmare and so Tesla is better off just reinstating the software and making sure they don't make this mistake again. |
| Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on February 09, 2020, 10:53:35 pm ---Keep in mind a license is NOT ownership. It's just a limited right, under a number of clauses, to use something. Pretty different. --- End quote --- The point is that Tesla is selling licences, not whether they can legally do this or not. It's indicative of a while different model which so far has never been in favour of the renter. You'll never be sure the car you start in the morning is the same car you left in the driveway last night. Thousands of dollars could have vapourized without the thing having moved. Remember how Adobe clients in certain countries initially got swindled out of their subscription fees thanks to the US government changing the rules on them? Now it can be done to your car too. https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20904030/adobe-venezuela-photoshop-behance-us-sanctions |
| BravoV:
--- Quote from: thinkfat on February 09, 2020, 08:13:34 pm ---Oh, OK, I get it now. It's not a car, it's a phone! And the autopilot is an app! Yes, now it all makes sense! :palm: --- End quote --- And remember, same as cloud based software, should someday your bad luck strikes, and by the order of "other" country's leader, that doesn't like your country anymore, then while you're driving in the middle of no where, suddenly your car engine just stopped and will never can be started again, maybe until your country's change the political direction. :-DD -> The Fact & Proof |
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