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.
Monopoly.
Wrong. You will choke yourself if that car belong to who you are.
With all the taxpayer money they got,then we the public should be getting weekly checks from the company as it should be considered a co-op
A real easy fix don’t buy GM products GM= government motors.
Looks like it time to change manufacturers, if you shake them all up in a bag you get the same results, crooks, lairs!
The hell I don’t.
They leaned this from Monsanto, intellectual property rights my$#%&!@*!!!!!!
Generic Motors
GM owns the intellectual property rights to the software. That software is proprietary and it is in their interest as a business to retain the code. There is no reason why that code is needed to make repairs. If anything, GM should make (commercially available) software to interface with their vehicle computers, similar to dealer tech software, and possibly license that.
Try and Take it!