cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62170925
I saw the video where the Dragon Sector hacker team presented their findings whereby a Polish train had a kill switch to block repairs by anyone other than the manufacturer. I believe the victim is not the train maker – it’s the train owner who is trapped in anti-repair shenanigans. I don’t know anti-competition law, but intuitively the train maker Newag abusively uses kill switches to secure a monopoly on repair of their trains.
My Beko washing machines have the same problem. They are kill-switched to block me from repair. Beko charges €200 to unlock them (more than the machine is worth). So I thought: what about that train hacking case? Surely by now the victims would have sued the train maker for anti-competition offenses, and by now I would have some favorable case law to cite. I’m so disguested with what I’ve found… I wonder what am I missing? The lawsuit is the other way around. The train maiker is suing the train owner and hacker group for “unlawful competition”.
Can someone please explain why the lawsuit isn’t the other way around? Are Europeans really fucked in this circumstance?
It’s crazy that Newag wasn’t already in court fighting a criminal case because they killswitched the trains when they passed through a specific station.
In answer to your question- you’re using your brain. Try to think like a morally bankrupt capitalist executive.