DCMA: You must use Ford Gas in Ford Cars or Else We Repo The Car

Ian Goldberg iang at abraham.cs.berkeley.edu
Wed Jun 27 18:15:03 PDT 2001


In article <3B3A6926.89042516 at army-of-one.org>,
John Doe #N  <jd at army-of-one.org> wrote:
>[1] An OEM may not be always be able to void a warrantee for objectively
>bogus reasons, 
>e.g., a car manufacturer probably couldn't get away with dropping a
>drive-train warrantee 
>because you used generic oil that fullfilled published specs.

Well, manufacturers certainly behave this egregiously today; Ross
Anderson's new book (I believe it was) tells of great things like
printers checking the model of toner catridge installed, and
automatically degrading the image if a 3rd-party cartridge is
being used.

   - Ian






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