Comments by "James LaBarre" (@SenileOtaku) on "Mazda requires $100+ subscription for remote start after filing DMCA takedown of open source program" video.

  1. Maybe wrap the transmitter with a grounded mesh, make a Faraday cage around it.
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  2. Exactly. As libertarians we oppose the use of force or fraud in personal interactions or business dealings. This activity violates BOTH.
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  3.  @MaNameizJeff  Again, there is NO moral basis for these companies to forbit you from seeking alternatives to their substandard offerings. The DMCA should never have been passed. But I guess Logic and Reasoning are not your strong points.
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  4.  @B.D.TRX4  What do you think Faraday Bags are for?
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  5.  @B.D.TRX4  That's why you buy a used car that no longer has a warranty, and has has firmware that's been jailbroken.
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  6.  @enemyspotted2467  I'll deal with the cold car. I've done it that way for decades now.
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  7. A car that is better designed, and thinks of the car owner rather than the car manufacturer? Tucker tried that in the 50's, and the carmakers made sure to shut that down. DMCA and protectionist legislation has made it even easier for the entrenched companies.
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  8. AC??? I have that in my car, it's called a window crank.
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  9.  @joeschmo622  I've had a couple of those, a 1962 Falcon wagon and a 1965 Falcon Futura.
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  10.  @vicentiubucingeni  Do you really want to start your car when you're nowhere near it, and can make sure someone doesn't steal it once it's running?
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  11. The problem is not so much covering the carmaker's operational costs, the problem is them belligerently shutting down any alternative systems/software. The DMCA has never been anything but a bludgeon for companies to shut down competitors.
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  12. Great, remote start and remote keyless entry. So you can unlock and start your car when you're nowhere near it, making it easier to steal. Brilliant.
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  13. Mazda can still be on the shopping list, as long as the car is old enough not to contain spyware, or has already been jailbroken.
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  14. They didn't want to make any agreements/arrangements with the developer. They just wanted any and all competition shut down.
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  15.  @nayber2352  Whoooooshhhh..... That was the sound of the point going right over your head...
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  16.  @thekinginyellow1744  And there are supposed to be severe limits on that as well.
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  17.  @MaNameizJeff  But that still does not give them the excuse to attack someone developing an alternative solution to their subscription. The DMCA should never have been passed, but there were corrupt companies like Disney strongarming their bought-and-paid Congresscritters to pass it regardless of Constitutional and moral limitations. This is the sort f thing libertarians speak of in their opposition to force OR fraud. Fraud to pull some bait-and-switch scheme with their licensing, and Force when they beat an independent developer over the head with the DMCA. This is a reason I never sign up for any of these "free" subscription offers that may come with a product. If I never use it in the first place, I won't find myself having to pay for it later. For decades now I've gone on the premise that every company is out to screw me over, and far too many times I'm proven to be right.
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  18.  @nayber2352  I'm fixing my 2011 Hyundai so I don't have to buy one of these crap new cars. I'll wait until the more recent models get jailbroken, and then I'll consider one of those. Probably won't matter anyway, because the internet is going to collapse in the next few years, in between spam, malware, scams, walled gardens and predatory lawsuits. Once the internet collapses, these services won't work anyway.
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  19.  @oh_zoinkers  Simple solution; open the driver's door, roll down the window. Walk around to the passenger side and roll down the window. Once you've walked back to the driver's side the majority of the heat will have dissipated. Besides, never had air conditioning in any of my cars (one was equipped with it, but it didn't work)
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  20.  @cheesecurd100s  Which means we ALL suffer for the stupidity of the sheeple.
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  21. And there's why I'm fixing my 2011 car, so I don't have to buy this new crap.
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  22.  @Anonymous______________  I would thank Joe Biden to kiss my ass (except I'm not an underage girl, so he wouldn't know how). Old sleepy-boy Brandon gave his "farewell" speech at the UN yesterday. He should have said farewell 30+ years ago.
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  23.  @TheUncleRuckus  We need a sarcasm emoji
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  24. Unless you've got a Chamberlain opener. Then you have to pay THEM for a subscription as well.
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  25. I'll deal with having to get into a cold car in the winter if it means I'm not beholden to some carmaker. Not that I could use remote start in the winter anyway, as I park in my garage. Back in the 70's we had block heaters to pre-warm car engines. Simple thing, just an extension cord out to the car. Should be simple to make a modern version with a RaspberryPi Zero.
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  26. This is the sort of thing the Free Software Foundation should be getting behind. But the developer is probably a white cis male Trump voter, so they'll just brand the developer a racist-sexist-homophobe and cheer on Mazda for "teaching that bigot a lesson".
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  27.  @roycsinclair  Except the way the open source community is going these days, you won't be allowed to build/use your open source car if you're white, male, or voted for Trump.
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  28. The DMCA was never there to protect copyrights. It was there to protect media corporations from competition.
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