Linux, Jailbreak, OpenSource.
Reverse engineering.
CDs, DVDs, Taping off of FM.
Copyright applies if you want to sell, or make profit from something. Not if you just make a copy.
I can surely see the profit motivation (detailed more in the source article). Guess we will go ‘underground’. But then at smog check time, will a flag indicate ‘unauthorized access has been performed’?
Longing for pre-technology.
The technology already exists to severly restrict the upgrade of firmware (ala PS3). Auto makers could implement this technology in future cars if they wanted. The problem is the cost. They do not want to add a couple hundred dollars to the cost of EVERY SINGLE VEHICLE.
They just want the extra $$ for the cars that do want to mod.