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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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NewTIS.com was infringing on BMW copyrighted intellectual property; it's completely 100% understandable. The information is worth hundreds of millions of dollars to BMW. I'm sure Bentley had a lot to do with this as well as BMW.
People have been repairing automobiles for generations using printed repair manuals distributed by publishing companies that purchase rights to publish BMW's (or any manufacturer's) repair information. This isn't the end of the world. YouTube and Google are not on BMW's target list. LOL.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."