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If I buy a car and, after a while, the guy who sold me the car comes in the middle of the night and takes the wheels, isn't it theft?

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If you buy the steering wheel of a car and rent the rest of the car and then the owner comes in the middle of the night and takes the wheels, is it theft?

It's certainly a violation of the rental terms.

Rental terms were 1000 page book.

That's the terms from when you rented the car, we have updated the terms since then.

I will feed the book into an LLM and ask questions.

It's on page 52.

Actually, it's first implied on page 23, but it becomes clear in conjunction with the articles on pages 48 and 49.

The article you're referring to on page 52 has provisions regarding confusion and/or impersonation, following the previously mentioned positive affirmation.

You need the full context of the T&C's, don't cherry pick.

Do people rent their amazon echo or buy it? I had the impression it was the later.

The website says "buy"!

A car analogy can work here, but a slightly different one:

Tesla remotely disable cars when they decide to, as they claim that they sell you the car, but only license the software. You get to keep the car, but loose the license to operate the software needed to actually make it useable.

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