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Because, it's already built into my car, i already paid for the car, the whole transaction is concluded. Paying in hindsight for a part of it, that is already there, is not really justified at all. If they built the car without one, and would have to add it later, then it would make sense. So if it would be more expensive to have my car explicitly built without this feature, why does it suddenly cost money when i decide i want it later?
The signal-broadcast all around everywhere and just YOU paying is simply for the fact they they can't route them specifically to just YOUR house. It might sound equally unfair but it's a clear distinction based on technical impossibility.
The right to first sale should mean that the owner owns and controls all services installed in the product. And any DRM in the way of that, or that obstructs the right of repair, should be illegal, and the manufacturer held liable for including it in a product.
Absolutely. But, as usual, we all let it happen, it will happen more, and in the end it's the total default for everything. Capitalism always wins over ignorance or apathy.
And your vehicle's features weren't lock behind a paywall in the pass because of enshitification. You know consumer rights and so on. If Rich people like you like paying then drive your rolls royce and Bentley, there are more poor people like us. Soon I'll have to pay to masterbate my fucking cock somehow for the cooperate overlords.
Why the attack? I'm against this. I might benefit from capitalism but i must not like it. And I do not. It's a shitty pyramid-scheme resulting in exactly shit like this. Many brands (that i know of...) do not put physically already existing hardware behind a paywall. Yet. But in the end, they all will do, because people don't care, or worse: don't see the implications it does and just accept.
As said, i now drive a pre-enshittification-car with no such shit. Might they still exist somehow in the future.