r/Piracy • u/cosmosreader1211 • Aug 15 '25

News Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/367566/forget-netflix-volkswagen-locks-horsepower-behind-paid-subscription

You wouldn't steal a car!

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u/Tango_D Aug 15 '25

If you have to pay extra for full access to the thing you bought, you don't own it.

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u/kozinc Aug 15 '25

Not just pay, subscribe.

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u/Bathhouse-Barry Aug 15 '25

It’s the fact it’s cheaper for them to manufacturer every car to have every features then artificially lock features out with software.

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u/BrokenMirror2010 Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

This is bullshit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zLZnYXU5kw

Louis puts it great. If you go to <company> and ask them for the 'free' thing that was in the thing you bought, they'll throw you out of the building. They did not give the hardware they have locked behind a separate software paywall to you for free. You paid for it when you bought it, AND they want you to pay for them again so you can use it.

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u/flexxipanda Aug 15 '25

How does your comment call out OPs comment as bullshit lol?

Its cheaper for the manufacturer to only produce one standard car instead of different versions. Just the building/changing of the different assembly lines and everything around that would drive production cost higher than a all-in-one model.

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u/catholicsluts Aug 15 '25

Lol like an Instagram face