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Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if available in Europe, do you think that information will not appear elsewhere? Mazda is not going to create a separate API for them alone.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Content providers already block access to content based on locale. It won't be hard to have a flag in the API that turns off functionality based on the callers location.