https://www.pcgamer.com/bmw-owners-are-figuring-out-how-to-pirate-their-heated-seats/
Imagine working at a factory installing seat heaters into cars knowing that the people who drive thosr cars won't be allowed to use them.
It's like some high level modern art where someone builds intricate machines and then puts them inside glass cases where people can look at them but they never get turned on.
BMW is probably fine with this. Without any sort of right to repair legislation, it liberates them of warranty obligations and costs them nothing.
Piracy advocates have been saying for years that piracy increases sales. I bet there’s something to that, even for heated seat subscriptions
I can't say whether piracy has increased the amount of money I spend on media, but it has certainly informed me about where to spend it.
:geordi-no: Piracy is good because it hurts capitalists
:geordi-yes: Piracy is good because it makes market forces more efficient
:galaxy-brain:
If you're going to spend money on art, you want to make sure the art is a good as possible. How do you know art is good? By developing taste. How do you develop taste? By seeing and listening to all the things. What is the easiest way to see and listen to all the things? Bittorrent.
I totally agree. Wasn’t trying to criticize you with the meme
don't worry, it will take much more than memes for me to feel shame
Not to mention that some percentage of car owners would rather just pay the fee than deal with any workaround
actually i would. i don't care if the transit authority is worker owned and run by robo-Bill Haywood im still not paying a goddamn fare :screm-cool:
Having to hack a car for a some seat warmers is the shittest cyberpunk future stuff I can think.
Broke: no heated seats because your fancy BMW makes you pay a subscription fee and you're mad.
Woke: no heated seats because you can't afford a new car.
Bespoke: no car because you spliced a space heater into the cigarette lighter and started an electrical fire
In some cases base model cars have all the expensive paid upgrade features built into the hardware but just disabled. Or just require an inexpensive part to activate a feature that would have cost $$$ if bought as an original option
It is just shocking how people can look at such blatant rent extraction like this and think that Capitalism is efficient.
It is pretty funny when libs think that applies to things like the cost of higher education or buying a home and not broadly to the entire extractive exploitative mode of production that is oppressing the entire world outside of a few coddled assholes.
But its not funny like you laugh and laugh and laugh. It's funny in the form of what I call "rough chuckles" when you have no recourse but to laugh because the alternative is ragecrying.
A big proportion of owners of new BMWs will be in the rent extracting classes themselves. They know how it works, they just don't like it when it happens to them.
