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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.

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You should email Louis Rossmann, he's been helping people in similar situations.

I cannot figure out of Louis is Batman or Don Quixote, charging at the "windmills" of MAMAA: (Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet).

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.

Don Quixote feels like a bad analogy. These are real dragons. Just, more difficult to fight against.

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.

In the end there were no spy chips, obviously.

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.

Have you moved it anywhere else? I checked codeberg and didn't see it there.

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