DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoMazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API toolarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkMazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API toolarstechnica.comDocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-text
Mazda is angry a customer used an API in a manner they couldn’t control. You can read the DMCA takedown notice here.
minus-squareUniDestroyer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThis doesn’t make any sense. API requests are not proprietary.
minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThat doesn’t stop anybody. Just this morning Amazon sent out a wave of C&Ds because people were using their public APIs to access “proprietary data.”
minus-squareBlinkerFluid@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agolooks sternly at Amazon Then why is it available?
minus-squarestolid_agnostic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoBecause fuck you, that’s why it’s available.
minus-squareTalaraine@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoSo, they mad b/c of an internal skill issue.
This doesn’t make any sense. API requests are not proprietary.
That doesn’t stop anybody. Just this morning Amazon sent out a wave of C&Ds because people were using their public APIs to access “proprietary data.”
looks sternly at Amazon
Then why is it available?
Because fuck you, that’s why it’s available.
So, they mad b/c of an internal skill issue.