This generation of S80 showcases Volvo's exceptional tuning capabilities. Due to cost constraints, the EUCD platform used in this car can be considered a scaled-up version of a compact sedan platform, but the S80's overall sporty performance is still quite good.

Willow Smith could've took out a dummy phone (you know,the one w/o a sim or esim card) & start recording back until the unwelcomed filmers would put their #eucd (electronic umbilical cord devices) down,otherwise choose a higher priced restaurant with a more respectable clientele

Bruna sos una forra por no compartir taxi conmigo ahora me tengo que ir a la EUCD en bondi con esta lluvia (la parada me queda a 7 cuadras)

Procedurally, this is a great moment for it, as the EU is finalizing the Digital Fairness Act, which could include an exemption to EUCD 6 for privacy-enhancing technologies: europarl.europa.eu/legislati… 44/

your Volvo (P2 platform) was designed just prior to Volvo's Ford ownership period, it's the last of the independent Volvo models - everything since is a platform share. The replacement V70 (P3 platform, aka Ford EUCD) did have heated front windscreen as an option - rare though.

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It's pretty remarkable that we've forgotten about the kind of reverse-engineering that EUCD 6 bans. This used to be totally normal. Providing tools to move data from one system to another - without permission from your old vendor - is a completely legitimate business. 56/

Any business that relies on EUCD 6 is garbage and should be killed with fire. The global champions of this legal sabotage are all American, but the EU companies that copied their business models are also trash and the EU should be terminating them with *extreme* prejudice. 55/

BMW won't let you use the feature that auto-dims your high-beams when there's oncoming traffic, and once again, that can't be fixed by another company because of EUCD 6: pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/r… 54/

Mercedes won't let you unlock your new car's full acceleration capability unless you pay them a monthly subscription fee, and any mechanic who tries to bypass this and give you your whole engine's capability violates EUCD 6. 53/

Newag then charges thousands of euros to remotely "repair" their own sabotage. When this was revealed by a team of independent security researchers, Newag used claims under EUCD 6 in an attempt to intimidate them into silence: pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/p… 52/

What's more, the digital locks that EUCD 6 protects are almost all to be found in American products. Only a handful of EU manufacturers rely on these, and they use them to in *terrible* ways. 49/

Even after you install a new part into a device, it won't start working until the manufacturer's representative unlocks it (for a hefty fee). Under anticircumvention laws like EUCD Article 6, it's illegal to bypass these locks. 48/

Bringing this full circle: Article 6 of the EUCD is also the law that stops European companies from reverse-engineering the iPhone and creating their own app stores, without having to rely on Apple's help. 47/

EUCD 6 gives American tech giants more rights to Europeans' copyrighted works than the Europeans who created those works. It's a terrible law, and after a quarter century, it's long past its expiry date. 46/

That means that a European company that made an account migration tool to help European companies or government agencies move *their own data* out of a US Big Tech silo could face liability under Article 6 of the EUCD, with severe criminal and civil penalties. 45/

Article 6 of the EUCD mirrors the language of Section 1201 of America's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, banning reverse-engineering and adversarial interoperability, even where no copyright infringement takes place. 44/

The major impediment to this kind of seamless bulk migration tool isn't the technological challenge - it's the law. In 2001, the EU - under pressure from the USA - included an "anticircumvention" rule in the EU Copyright Directive (EUCD). 43/

I think the right move for the EU (which I doubt they'll take) is to do industrial policy by repealing anti-circumvention laws (transpositions of Article 6 of the EUCD), which would allow EU firms to make interoperable components for US tech. That would mean that - for example - an EU firm could supply every mechanic in the world with a universal car diagnostic kit (replacing the $10k/year/manufacturer that mechanics pay now). These kits could unlock subscription and software upgrade features, so any Tesla owner could stop paying subscription fees to Musk and instead pay a one-time fee to a mechanic (whose tooling comes from an EU company) to jailbreak their cars. This could be done with app stores - anyone in the world who wants to set up an iOS app store could buy the tools to let their customers switch their iPhones to it from an EU firm. It could be done with printer ink, med-tech, medical implants, industrial IOT, ag-tech (alt firmware for John Deere tractors, etc). These are global markets with nigh-infinite upsides. The next national champion is a Nokia, but for the gizmo that lets a guy working from a folding table at the corner shop jailbreak your Xbox and install an alt app-store where the world's games companies can sell their wares without giving 30% to Microsoft. That's a product with a VAST global market, which would create consumer surpluses worldwide (including in the US) and deliver industrial policy that incubates a domestic tech sector to the country where a firm develops it first. This is also critical for any Eurostack effort. It doesn't matter how many Office365 clones the Commission subsidises: unless EU firms can move all their data (including file permissions, edit histories, etc) out of the Microsoft walled garden and into an EU alternative, they will be held back by switching costs. There's a huge market (again, worldwide) for fearless, robust scrapers that pull all this data out WITHOUT Microsoft's permission or cooperation. Every MSFT enterprise customer would benefit from the existence of such a tool, even if they don't ever use it, because the mere fact that you CAN costlessly leave Microsoft at the click of a mouse means that Microsoft has to fight for your business.