But what happens when Musk decides the law doesn't apply to him...
replyThe law will adapt, same as it adapted for OpenAI/Anthropic when they started doing piracy to train their LLMs
replyNvidia started funding piracy sites too; https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-to-s...
If you are billionaire+ it's "legal", and if not at least financially worth it + almost never punishment on management.
If you are worth xx'000 you personally go to jail, you get into very big troubles, and get ruined.
No? The law is just the law. But until someone actually gets a judge to rule that what they did is illegal...
replyBuying a 30M USD mansion to the daughter of the judge is going to fix that.
replyIn a banana republic.
replyDo you actually look at the current US landscape and think “the law is just the law” for the rich and poor alike?
replyGetting a judge to rule on something is also part of that “the law is just the law” and it’s obvious that judges are more willing to rule on cases for the poor and powerless than the rich and connected.
This is an urban legend. Safety defects have to be remedied by the manufacturer for a period of 10 years, but that remedy doesn't have to involve replacement parts.
replyhttps://www.nhtsa.gov/interpretations/timereplcepartpollak12...
I agree, looks like you are correct. It seems that it is just one of those things that manufacturers have agreed to do voluntarily, in the absence of a specific law. I imagine they have calculated that the loss of goodwill from abandoning a product quickly would outweigh the cost savings (especially since there is so much sharing of parts that keeping a few specialty components on hand is not going to move the needle much).
replyIt’s not about goodwill. Selling parts is simply a good business. The margins at authorized dealers are crazy.
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