After Mark Zuckerberg's latest words on users being dumb fucks for trusting him, I've made my decision to steer clear forever from Facebook...and anything else he gets his grubby paws on.
That's because NOTHING can defend you from a frivolous lawsuit when you still have to pay your own legal expenses.
They are effective however, in much the same way as a stockpile of nukes. Mutually assured destruction and all that.
However, when you have either a madman bent on world destruction, or just a regular asshole who wants to abuse the legal system, well, you're on your own.
And everybody would replicate their food, water, clothing, and all other necessities.
Nobody would need to work.
We'd all be happy......until the local mafia replicated a shitload of guns and took away all our replicators....or until Castro replicated a bunch of rockets and took over the world.
They shot themselves in the foot with their earlier blunder, and until they backtrack and undo all the collateral damage of automatic follows I'm keeping it disabled.
Up until the point where you got hired the work was entirely yours.
At the moment they picked you up, your contributions became work for hire and they became a secondary contributor with you as their agent.
The code is jointly owned by you and the university.
Them hiring you doesn't trump any of the work you did solo before getting the job.
Just the same though, getting your neck breathed down by a high powered legal department can change things in a hurry. Unless you have solid proof you worked on it before getting hired they will most likely be able to muscle you out of your rights anyway.
As long as MPEG LA is threatening all competing codecs equally with patent suits, we can't really win on ideology front, so let's go with the codec that is most popular and also happens to have ubiquitous hardware support.
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Municipalities rake in too much in red light violation fines to go for it.
If I was a plant I'd wholeheartwoodedly agree with you.
After Mark Zuckerberg's latest words on users being dumb fucks for trusting him, I've made my decision to steer clear forever from Facebook...and anything else he gets his grubby paws on.
You are distributing it, to yourself.
And that is the reason we need to get rid of software patents.
Any VP8 patent that applies to H.264 may itself get nailed on grounds of prior art.
It's almost a textbook definition of prior art when you already have a patent that covers the technology another patent is trying to cover.
I tend to follow the money, and the money says that the IP lobby will make sure they get favorable rulings.
That's because NOTHING can defend you from a frivolous lawsuit when you still have to pay your own legal expenses.
They are effective however, in much the same way as a stockpile of nukes. Mutually assured destruction and all that.
However, when you have either a madman bent on world destruction, or just a regular asshole who wants to abuse the legal system, well, you're on your own.
And how is that any different from getting signed up for mafiosi protection?
Not really.
All they have to do is make up some bullshit excuse to confiscate it and into the sin bin it goes.
Seizing is an order of magnitude faster than searching.
Everything is toxic given a high enough concentration.
Even water, one of if not THE most inert chemical compound known to man.
Paying short and getting my waitress sacked for "stealing" is pretty low.
For starters, they ought to be getting a warrant before they even lay a fucking finger on my phone (assuming I even had one).
Maybe you're forgetting the conviction in Swedish court.
While they're still on appeal I'm not holding my breath.
And everybody would replicate their food, water, clothing, and all other necessities.
Nobody would need to work.
We'd all be happy... ...until the local mafia replicated a shitload of guns and took away all our replicators. ...or until Castro replicated a bunch of rockets and took over the world.
Hmm...what if someone replicated a nuke?
This, coming from someone who is too chicken to post their troll material under their real name and take the karma hit like a man.
Why isn't some tycoon plugging it and putting a pipe in it?
Yet.
Someone's suing Sony as we speak.
They shot themselves in the foot with their earlier blunder, and until they backtrack and undo all the collateral damage of automatic follows I'm keeping it disabled.
I think the tricky part is that it was already under GPL before he got hired.
True, but a high powered legal department might muscle him out of his rights anyway.
YouTube DOES have a community based flagging system, and admins are paid to review those.
Up until the point where you got hired the work was entirely yours.
At the moment they picked you up, your contributions became work for hire and they became a secondary contributor with you as their agent.
The code is jointly owned by you and the university.
Them hiring you doesn't trump any of the work you did solo before getting the job.
Just the same though, getting your neck breathed down by a high powered legal department can change things in a hurry. Unless you have solid proof you worked on it before getting hired they will most likely be able to muscle you out of your rights anyway.
US centric yes, but where's the nerd part?
As long as MPEG LA is threatening all competing codecs equally with patent suits, we can't really win on ideology front, so let's go with the codec that is most popular and also happens to have ubiquitous hardware support.