User: HaqDiesel

Damages ruling isn't unusual

On: Judge Rules Twitter Images Cannot Be Used Commercially

Damages for copyright infringement are always set on a per-work (rather than per-copy) basis, whatever the context. Judgments are huge in file sharing cases because they typically involve multiple tracks, each of which can fetch up to $750,000 if willful infringement is found.

And a GPLv3 crisis is born

On: TiVo Relaunching As a Patent Troll?

We can't have TWO tivoization clauses! How are we going to know which one we're talking about?

Free == worthless

On: Metallica May Follow In Footsteps of Radiohead, NIN

Proving, contrary to prior indications, that "free" really does mean "worthless."

Headline quibble

On: Group Fights Politicizing Science and Engineering

Can you really say they're fighting politicization by forming a political interest group?

Re:Animation?

On: Maps Show Mars Was Once More Like Earth

It's one of those brand new animated JPEGs, you have to press ALT+F4 to see it

J/K LOLZ

Could be!

On: StarOffice 8 May Be MS Office Killer

What I'm hearing is, "you could achieve compatibility with MS Office, it's just a pain in the ass and not worth anyone's time."

I can't help but think that all of the effort put into mimicking the dominant product could be put into creating unique and valuable features.