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.
The bailout money they took was the American people’s I think we own General Motors!
I guess the title means nothing!
Then give me my money back and you can have your vehicle back
10 year old Jeeps for the win.
BOYCOTT THE BASTARDS! DONT BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM!
Well GM, I guess you didn’t build that.
Yeah well GM can kiss my$#%&!@*come get my s***
Well stated.
I don’t make payments so yes I do own it!
True thee bank owns it until you pay it off. Oh and the state can’t own anything as the peole of that state own whatever the state has in it’s pocession, so you really do own it.