tarotuser
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Onyx is a Chinese company.
Naturally, they don't recognize FLOSS or commercial licenses originating from European Union or USA.
The catch here would be is to file grievances against major distributors (Amazon, Ebay) and to prevent shipment here until they comply and pay up.
Comment · 3 years ago
> i disagree however that suing for maximum damage is helpful to GPL software. it only instills fear in companies wanting to use it because it increases the risk.
And for some reason, a company with questionable EULAs, illegal in many jurisdiction's terms, and hundreds of pages of dense legalese doesn't seem to scare any of these companies away.
And many FLOSS licenses are written in plain language to easily understand what you can and cant do. These companies aren't doing an accident - its intentional, ongoing, and continual malfeasance BECAUSE there is no real punishment. At best, they'll have to "comply". (And you know, FLOSS is always bemoaning no money.... well, here's a way to fund it)
> i believe a good will approach to help companies with compliance is better, only suing when companies refuse to comply.
You can disagree with me all you want. All I ask is "how does it look when the tables are turned"?
And we have a rather nice answer - https://www.bsa.org/ and https://www.siia.net/
The business software alliance and Software & Information Industry Association are utterly dictatorial about intentional copyright violations, and also very harsh about accidental violations.
You can do further research on case studies of places that were called out for pirated software, and how many millions of dollars they had to pay in fines and "fixing proper licenses".
Until FLOSS starts doing tit-for-tat (the best game theory decision in these kinds of things), we're going to keep seeeing companies treating FLOSS as their own personal loot-crate with little to no punishment for intentionally doing wrong.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm also curious, since you work in psychiatry....
Have you seen any cases of scromiting, or "Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome"?
These articles showed up in a big online hit in mid-2022, and never seemingly referenced again. My pessimism indicated that it was likely a hit piece against cannabis, but I'd rather ask for sure than just assume some conspiracy.
Comment · 3 years ago
Until FLOSS stewards start suing for the maximum damages permitted by law ($135k/violation) and make these company-ending events, FLOSS will be seen as a grab-n-go for anyone to pilfer, abuse, and sell as their own.
I completely understand why FLOSS people wouldn't want to go after individuals misunderstanding a license. And that's also not at all what I'm talking about. LEGO et al have been around for decades, piles of lawyers, heavy handed trademark letters from their lawyers.... but end up doing fuckall with FLOSS folks.
Think if the tables were turned - and you accurately modeled every LEGO brick and allowed sending to 3d printers to make custom bricks. Just how FAST would they shut that down?
Oh, and this is hypocritical as ever: https://www.lego.com/en-us/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-p...
Comment · 3 years ago
It's the Silicon Valley corporate playbook:
Privatize the gains, Socialize the losses.
The corollary is: socialism for the rich, unabashed cutthroat capitalism for the rest of us.
Comment · 3 years ago
First, use a good adblocker, like Ublock Origin. There's no ads in the actual video the Professor posted.
Secondly, his audience is tabletop card gamers. He does set the scene as to why he's making a video. Most of his audience is not of a technical nature.
I also made a synopsis as a comment so you didn't have to watch the video, since some (including myself!) despise video-only content. But I do follow him on YT. And his problem applies to a LOT of areas on YT, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and elsewhere.
Comment · 3 years ago
Public schools have been instituting in "gig work" before that even became a term.
I remember in my elementary years (5-11 year olds) that the school would 'force' (peer pressure, competition, punishment of class for you not doing, etc) kids to get fliers of absolute utter garbage merchandise at exorbitant prices, and then go door-to-door selling these items. And the public school would get some unknown kickback for sales.
I remember when my parents said no to this, the teacher in class said "Since tarotuser won't sell anything, the class can never get a pizza party".
But... as a worse thought, that would indicate that Instacart et al should be able to target any age group, since gig-work is endorsed by the public school system and technically isn't "employment". But we all know better.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think attributing any sort of emotion to them is out of place.
I'd argue that there's complete antipathy at the politician and elite level. And that turns "illegal child labor" into a cost of doing business. And from the looks of it, a quite lucrative form of doing business.
I think you're misjudging the emotions (I'd argue they have none). I don't think you're insane.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is the "Tolarian Community College" (a play on words from the MtG card game).
Without having to watch the video, this Youtuber does a lot of reviews and content on the game. During the course of reviews, he gets a lot of free merchandise. To that end, he then gives it freely to his subscribers.
The problem: there's a deluge of bots that nearly-instantly post on comments and threads in Youtube that redirect unsuspecting users to scammer Telegram channels, Discords, and etc. The common scam is "pay for shipping and you get free stuff". (this youtuber pays for the shipping if sending free product)
To compound this, this is definitely an automated bot driven attack on not only current videos, but also all his historical videos. And Youtube/Google/Alphabet doesn't provide anywhere near the tools to counter these types of botstorms.
He pleas for anyone working at Youtube etc to get in touch and/or make tools available to disable these scammers.
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't see an exploit. I see a negotiation and a successful agreement of 6 of 9 parties. The analog to this in the real world is 2 pages stuck together, and the signer(s) didn't do their due diligence.
After all, wasn't the saying with shitcoin was that "The code is the contract, and the contract is the code"?
You make your bed, and lie in it.
When the USA was early on, before and during the War of Independence, we routinely ignored the set of IP laws from European countries.
https://eh.net/encyclopedia/an-economic-history-of-copyright...
And China DOES enforce IP laws in China. They just don't enforce USA copyright laws, cause it's not the USA. And The USA doesn't enforce Chinese IP laws.
Eventually, the IP laws will be mutually respected. It'll take time. But in the meantime, this is more a trade dispute. That means that larger vendors need to be legally forced to stop shipment and sale of said violating items, and CBP needs to do more in stopping shipments coming in-country.