Originally Posted by
Sweet35th
The responsibility of protecting their "intellectual property" falls on them. Locking out a component that they do not own, have rights to own, nor even have rights to manipulate without permission from the owner is not the right way to do it. From what I have been told by my customer, its not the lawful way of doing it either. Not sure what his plans are, kinda want to stay out of it personally, but do not want to continue losing business and time because of this.
This is just plain wrong, no matter how you look at it. SCT does not own the PCM, they do not own the vehicle, they do not own the hardware in the vehicle, they do not even own the software that is in the PCM. They may hold their "manipulation" of that software as proprietary, but that does not justify them rendering the software unusable for the owner should they choose to use another product..