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Originally Posted by cooolone2
WTF!???
Torque Specs aren't a protected trade secret! And neither is working on your own vehicle! As a matter of fact, this could very well be considered a restraint of trade as preventing owners from working in their own vehicles with the free exchange of information. Problem would be if the site was making "any" $ from the exchange of information and if so, even from advertising, then BMW would have a right to shut it down.
Is crazy though, can't tell you how many forums and such with my other and older vehicles that I've learned, educated myself from and been able to perform untold repairs and mods to my cars.
So is YouTube going to be challenged next? How about Google searches? This is absurd!
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It's sort of weird as the site specifically stated not affiliated with BMW.
This sounds similar to John Deere and the issues farmers had with not being able to fix their tractors. Eventually they were granted the John Deere servicing information for a while under the (The Right-to-Repair Movement).