John Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership

[waggy]

Look, I don't like that they may attempt to prevent you from making mods at all, but I do understand the fact that even if you change something they may still be held liable. There's a concept in law, attractive nuisance, that if you have something, like a swimming pool, that is likely to attract, say, children, you are liable for any harm if you don't take steps to prevent the child accessing the pool. A car maker may well see a USB port that gains access to critical car functions as an attractive nuisance.

We're not talking about a PC where a modification might bork the PC we're talking about vehicles were an alteration might kill someone and the risk of someone being killed is non trivial.

Interestingly, there is a port in your car where you are, at least for now, permitted to access -- the OBDII port. I think so long as users only listen to activity on the OBDII port we're OK, but if you attempt to make changes then the car maker does have reasonable concerns - -again, the attractive nuisance.


Brian

And i should be able to mod anything i buy how i see fit. IF i fuck it up then its my problem.