[triceratops]

The counterargument to that is cars are regularly stripped for parts even when spares are easily available to buy.

[deely3]

Does this counterargument mean that DRM is actually good, and in the future all cars should be unfixable without approval of producer?

[kmeisthax]

Elon Musk seems to think this way, and every other car manufacturer has let this cancer metastasize in otherwise perfectly fine EV designs because dealers won't sell a car without something to keep people coming back every six months for maintenance.