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.
Looks like the “bailout” was a buy out Government Motors
SUCK MY$#%&!@*GOVT. MOTORS..COME TRY TO TAKE IT! BUT I WOULDN’T BUY A$#%&!@*CAR FROM GOVT. MOTORS ANYWAY!
Copyrights do protect you from tinkering they keep you from reproduction of s product this is ridiculous
(Buy Ford)
GM is still run by the thieves that put it 80billion in debt. Then oboma took all the stock from private investors gave it to the unions. Plus $80 billion that they immediately invested in China. Why would anyone buy one?
if the car is still theirs, they need to come fix it and pay the damn taxes and licenses on it
That is why i been driving Ford since 1991.
Do not pay any more repair bills, have them sent to General Motors. Also as a share holder in General Motors they do not get to make that statement with us voting on it.
What has that attorney been smokin’?
gm can go f its self i do not buy their c**p anyway gmc government made c**p thake bailouts and two years later buld 5 plants in china.