As a lawyer, I applaud the legal reasoning of the decision.
From a practical standpoint, it wouldn't have changed anything for me either way (if I lived in the US).
As far as I'm concerned, go ahead auto makers, sue me lololol. Good luck proving that tinkering with my ECU caused you any compensable loss even if you did win. [insert middle finger icon]
Funny thing being a criminal defense lawyer. When you have people calling you for advice on 2nd degree murder charges, copyright law just doesn't rate much on my 'giveadamn meter'
The principles behind domestic copyright laws is universal pursuant to Article 17 of the Convention don't forget, so part ratification within a state is largely irrelevant under a fortori principles and the Rule of Law, which often makes lesser statutory provisions, or lack thereof as the case may be, somewhat irrelevant! Simple fact of the matter is that since this forum came into effect Bosch's bean counters would have noticed an increase in sales most likely and brought about by an increase in aftermarket tuners, which in turn means more aftermarket parts sales or oem part sales, more money in the economy etc......
Main thing now is to "seperate the wheat from the chaff" in terms of tuner quality!
Oh and as for criminal defence lawyers, are you better off not saying anything on the matter?
