BYD DMCAd my whole repo to connect to their cars... https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/05/2026-05-2...
It's a shame these car makers are locking down their cars (which are brought for a premium!) and going on a crusade against open source.
Do we really need to embrace these companies' attempts to distance themselves from their toxic brands? The way I see it they're still Google and Faceboot.
At least some of Louis’s dragons seem to live in a bottle, considering his very public freakout a few years ago where he accused Apple of putting secret spy chips in his laptop to spy on him through the camera.
This sure reads like a "you did nothing illegal but will attempt to make it look illegal" kind of thing. Like putting the key to a public space under the doormat, with a sign "key here" and then complaining you cannot use that key to access the already public space.
They alleging you have broken their encryption.. DMCA would be appropriate I would assume in this case.
OTOH, if there isn't a first party way to get an auth token or a way to connect your car with home assistant, I see that as a deficiency of service.
r/opensource_legalaid
let's reply and demand access to the data.