• @Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    You could bypass and put your own hardwired switch in. But it wouldn’t be integrated into the car’s gui.

    reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is protected by the DMCA.

    “to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.”

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201#

    Modchips makers were sued and jailed. Interoperability didn’t apply because they violated the “no commercial use” part of the title.

    • @atrielienz@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      I never claimed it would be. Car toys will absolutely do what they have always done to get around car makers and provide customers with the modifications they want. That is not even a question.