{"id":51204,"date":"2015-05-20T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T19:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/all-your-car-are-belong-to-us.html"},"modified":"2015-05-20T15:37:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T21:37:53","slug":"all-your-car-are-belong-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/all-your-car-are-belong-to-us.html","title":{"rendered":"All your car are belong to us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a GM car &#8212; bought, paid, for, have a title signed off by GM or the lender saying the car is <i>yours<\/i> &#8230; well, GM is fine with all that &#8230; all except that software that makes the various computerized bits of it work properly. That, GM maintains, it owns, has copyright to, and is merely <i>licensing<\/i> to car owners. Nobody, including the putative owner of the car, can examine it, let alone modify it &#8230; but without it the car won&#39;t run.<\/p>\n<p>So, who actually owns your car?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#39;s GM&#39;s car. They&#39;re just letting you use it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2015\/05\/20\/gm-that-car-you-bought-were-really-the-ones-who-own-it\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/UG3L0W3QvXSia-nO-pQKS0P3mXj0NIoEuVE_hwAMwRyQyQR9n2cD1A_5Z7tNlALsgagsbFMH_fW-ndK-GAHNiHFmkAFf-GgLiO3s=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2015\/05\/20\/gm-that-car-you-bought-were-really-the-ones-who-own-it\/'>GM: That Car You Bought? We&#8217;re Really The Ones Who Own It.<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nCongratulations! You just bought a new Chevy, GMC, or Cadillac. You really like driving it. And it&#8217;s purchased, not leased, and all paid off with no liens, so it&#8217;s all yours&#8230; isn&#8217;t it? Well, no, &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/K8fdqo4pc17'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a GM car &#8212; bought, paid, for, have a title signed off by GM or the lender saying the car is yours &#8230; well, GM is fine with all that &#8230; all except that software that makes the various computerized bits of it work properly. That, GM maintains, it owns, has copyright &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/all-your-car-are-belong-to-us.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All your car are belong to us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,5,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-cars","category-media-intellectual-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5199,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/16\/words_mean_thin.html","url_meta":{"origin":51204,"position":0},"title":"Words mean things","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Oct-03 3:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Under the National Post headline \"GM finds out LaCrosse not just a team sport in Quebec\": General Motor's plans to rechristen the Canadian-built Buick Regal passenger car as the Buick...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27470,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/the-droid-chauffeur.html","url_meta":{"origin":51204,"position":1},"title":"The Droid Chauffeur","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Apr-12 6:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I think the driverless car reality is a lot further away, technologically, than people might think. 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