DRM To Be Used In Renault Electric Cars 231
mahiskali writes with this interesting news via the EFF's Deep Links "The new Renault Zoe comes with a 'feature' that absolutely nobody wants. Instead of selling consumers a complete car that they can use, repair, and upgrade as they see fit, Renault has opted to lock purchasers into a rental contract with a battery manufacturer and enforce that contract with digital rights management (DRM) restrictions that can remotely prevent the battery from charging at all. This coming on the heels of the recent Trans-Pacific Partnership IP Rights Chapter leak certainly makes you wonder how much of that device (car?) you really own. Perhaps Merriam-Webster can simply change the definition of ownership."
No Problem. (Score:5, Funny)
2. (obsc./archaic) N. "Possessing the right of use or disposition of an object as one sees fit."
Re:Defensive move - Informative update. (Score:4, Funny)
The 'expired' date on medicines (and food) does NOT give a time after which they are unsafe to use.
True story: I had a box of fungicide in my shed, and my wife wanted to throw it out because it was expired. I finally convinced her that it was unlikely that fungicide would rot.