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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[+] 49 points 2 years ago (15 children)
  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    Lol no it wouldn't. The guy doesn't want to commit resources to fight this, since it's a hobby project and this sucked away his motivation to continue.

    Unless y'all give him enough money to mount a legal defense, no amount of fancy tech will help.

    While not exactly this situation, it has similar vibes to this: https://xkcd.com/538/

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh god.

    Federation is going to become the next blockchain thing that people have no idea what it does but insist it'll fix everything, isnt it?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Isn't Git kind of naturally federated in a broad sense, just by the way it works? As long as someone has the source code they can always create another Git repo and share it.

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  • [+] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Only if anonymous. Eventually they’d get a court to order their domain be cancelled and they’d be offline anyway.

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