Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

• reddit_sux@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is it still sabotage if the only thing they have sold is a license to use their product not the product itself. That is still their property.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m no law expert, but as far as i know, there were laready similiar cases. Reasoning (german law): Software required to run the product is not “licensed to use” but part of the product, which was bought, belongs the user and not the company. Remotely making the device unusable would indeed violate that term.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yes. and no its not their property.

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  • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hopefully, such terms would violate the above law andnoyt hold up against it.

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