Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

Financial risk too great for dev working "in my spare time to help others."

Mazda is angry a customer used an API in a manner they couldn't control. You can read the DMCA takedown notice here.

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Just start charging exorbitant amounts of money for every API call; problem solved! —Spez

(Also: Fuck Spez)
- Sadly it would end the same like with reddit or netflix: The loss due to the amount of pissed-off and leaving customers is obviously way less than the gain due to the ignorant or root-problem-agnostics. Makes me a sad panda...

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