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Originally Posted by Pharmacist
wouldn't it be illegal for them to copyright such software since that affects customer choice? doesn't a car owner have a legal right to have a car fixed at the shop of his choosing and not just a dealer?
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Its NOT the software that is protected under the copyright. It is the intellectual content that the software is just presenting to the screen.
Nothing would prevent a competitor service place to spend millions to reverse engineer a 370Z for the purpose of blueprinting everything and writing the repair content that would then be under their own copyright. But as you can see that just wouln't be cost-effective now would it?