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Whenever some obviously useful thing remains inexplicably unavailable, it's a pretty good bet there's a copyright or patent involved.
Really, it's time to end the concept of intellectual property. It could be justified -- barely -- as "promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts" when the US Constitution was drafted. Content was scarce and physically difficult to publish, and there was nothing remotely resembling modern manufacturing. The concept of IP is completely indefensible now, because all it does is get in the way of Progress.
It's more likely they picked too small of a drive and found they needed it for maps and other things. They figured with 128GB thumb drives down to less than $50 that was a good way to go too.
While I agree it can be obstructive, the concept of protected IP provides assurance that allows companies to invest in complex R&D. In media, IP allows artists to be paid for their efforts beyond live performance. While the current approach to protections has its flaws and is ripe for a re-think, to abolish totally would not enable progress, would actually stifle it.
Model S doesn't have a CD drive and I don't recall anyone being able to even connect one. On-board file storage in a Tesla is no different to owning/using a USB stick.
Model S doesn't have a CD drive and I don't recall anyone being able to even connect one. On-board file storage in a Tesla is no different to owning/using a USB stick.
Whether or not a CD drive exists in the car has nothing material to do with this lawsuit.
Ok this is probably really stupid of me to argue with a lawyer but.....common sense says it does make a difference since the case is about the ability to rip CDs to the vehicle hard drive; you can't do that in a Tesla because it doesn't have a CD drive.
(I might regret posting this....)
OR, if you have a lot of media in FLAC or other uncompressed formats, a 1 TB usb drive for $65. Really, if Tesla enabled the onboard storage, the next line of complaint would be "too little space". I really like the option to be user expandable and "open"... also to be able to take the drive into my house and re-synch with my master collection.
I thought it was well known that the space originally intended to be made available for us to copy media to was instead used for map tile caching on the google maps service to improve offline performance.
Perhaps I dreamt that explanation though (my experience in the UK is that map tiles really don't seem to be cached very well at all).
I really can't see why this is an issue. I just bought a very small (physically; it's 64GB in terms of data!) USB3 flash drive and put my entire music collection on that. And even if the car did have built-in storage I would still have needed the flash drive to copy it to the car anyway!