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DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

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Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

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DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Financial risk too great for dev working "in my spare time to help others."

Mazda is angry a customer used an API in a manner they couldn’t control. You can read the DMCA takedown notice here.

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      Lol no it wouldn’t. The guy doesn’t want to commit resources to fight this, since it’s a hobby project and this sucked away his motivation to continue.

      Unless y’all give him enough money to mount a legal defense, no amount of fancy tech will help.

      While not exactly this situation, it has similar vibes to this: https://xkcd.com/538/

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        Oh god.

        Federation is going to become the next blockchain thing that people have no idea what it does but insist it’ll fix everything, isnt it?

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          it already is.

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            Except the use case it was designed for is actually used…

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        I think he only means in a literal sense. If the thing is copied a ton of times to several repositories, it becomes harder to expunge it entirely. Legal battles notwithstanding.

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      Isn’t Git kind of naturally federated in a broad sense, just by the way it works? As long as someone has the source code they can always create another Git repo and share it.

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          Oh okay, how cool. You have piqued my interest, I will check out Gitea for now for sure. Thanks for the explanation.

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          Kids these days…

          Linus Torvalds rather famously managed Linux patches for decades without a centralized server.

          https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email

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      Only if anonymous. Eventually they’d get a court to order their domain be cancelled and they’d be offline anyway.

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          Whack a mole I guess. Are we back to playing with Napster?

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      Absolutely false.

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