You can trick your whip all you want, but GM says that car is still theirs, no matter what you’ve paid. In a hearing this week, General Motors attorney Harry Lightsey said that purchasing and paying off your GM vehicle is a license agreement and not ownership.
The U.S Copyright Office is holding a hearing on whether anyone other than the vehicle’s manufacturer has the right to alter the that car’s copyrighted software. With modern design being what it is, this means almost altering anything about the vehicle.
Mechanics and private owners are saying they need to be allowed to make repairs on their vehicles to keep them running or maintain their business. But GM is saying that anyone unauthorized altering anything about the vehicle could create problems with the software and endanger the driver. This sounds more like a business ploy on the part of GM to hold a monopoly on vehicle repairs.
Read more about GM’s position on page 2.
It’s a scary reality!
good to know, i will make sure i never purchase a gm vehicle
That’s exactly why I didn’t buy one.
And to GMC, we’re paying your salary’s by leasing your transportation vehicles that usually break down a some point , because you can’t get it right….
Designed to break. Pay more money to learn how to break stuff. Enhancing the future?!?! Someone throw this bum out the building!!! They say!
Guess it is time to STOP buying GM products? Or if people just “rent” them maybe when repairs are needed (and that WILL happen) call the “landlord” and let them fix the problem?
most of the car companies have done this with their IP stored in the cars computers. you don’t own it so that you don’t have a right to reverse engineer it. Looks like GM is the first to actually use it in court.
Does that mean I don’t really own my 36 year old Pontiac station wagon?
Never like g m I’m a ford gal
Really