This will be over soon. When the EU’s Data Act comes into force, car manufacturers will be obliged to allow access to vehicle data.

I don’t get it. People are working for free to add a feature to your product which might move more people to buy said product. Make users who use external features acknowledge some waiver that your company is not responsible for damage. If it turns out to be really good, you can fork it, hire the original inventor and turn it into a paid product. Isn’t that a risk-free win? Am I missing something?

Never buy Mazda. Gotcha.

I’ll be buying a new car soon. Fuck Mazda.

Should be legally protected and these companies should receive heavy fines for false DMCA claims

This doesn’t make any sense. API requests are not proprietary.

I didn’t really get it until I read the article (shut up 😃), but it seems pretty clear that Mazda’s primary concern here appears to be access to this API through Home Assistant cutting off future (maybe current) owners’ requirement to subscribe to their app for features.