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by otterley 3d ago
Why doesn’t it happen with them?
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by otterley 3d ago
It’s not futile. Write your congressperson and state representatives. If enough people do this around the country, laws will eventually be passed to prevent it.
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by otterley 4d ago
Mahindra is selling cars in Australia but they’re not the same models sold in India. Same names but different specs. Fair enough that the housing is made from concrete but the quality is still pretty poor. The foundations are uneven, as are
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by otterley 4d ago
It’s absolutely unreasonable. Each subscriber has a certain amount of fixed bandwidth available to them, and there are other devices connected to their network. By connecting an unauthorized device, that device now has both the ability to c
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by otterley 4d ago
There are a few reasons for that. First, the cost of labor is very low. Second, with the exception of food, you get what you pay for. The housing is of poor quality compared to what you get in the west—it’d never pass inspection there. Ever
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by otterley 4d ago
Not in the US, anyway. Outside the US, there are loads of them. You can buy a brand new car for about $3,500 in India: https://www.marutisuzuki.com/arena/s-presso
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by otterley 7d ago
It makes a lot more sense to purchase one if you consider their residual value when you sell it to upgrade later. A typical Android phone depreciates much more quickly than an iPhone. My three-year-old iPhone 15 Pro is still worth $500 or
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by otterley 9d ago
Maybe you should be more explicit about what you think really happened.
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by otterley 9d ago
> Many confederate statues were taken down--did anything change as a result? The entire thing seems like a delusional crusade against windmills. Focus on the present, not the past. This sounds like a thinly-veiled argument to keep them u
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by otterley 11d ago
> the framework of casting their work as intellectual property has impoverished rather than enriching them Some hit artists might disagree with you. Besides, the ones who flopped don’t owe the rightsholders money from their own pockets.
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by otterley 11d ago
> In the current legal system, you can enforce restrictions on the usage of this binary [from a public domain source], and can forbid redistribution, reverse-engineering IAAL and am pretty familiar with U.S. copyright law, and am curious
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by otterley 11d ago
> To be frank, it sounds like you are part of the problem, and that your income may partly be derived from rent-seeking via the intellectual property regime. Is that correct? That is not correct. My current role is a technical one, not a
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by otterley 11d ago
> Why do you think so much open source software is written, if you need a profit motive for software to be created? That's like asking why gardeners like to grow food and flowers in their backyards, or why hobbyists like to build fu
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by otterley 11d ago
I'm a trained attorney who specialized in intellectual property law, and I happen to know a little about both the performing arts and software industries. It does serve people and power entire industries. You wrote "copyright is s
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by otterley 11d ago
There was a lot for people to be angry about, particularly the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan that the Bush administration got us into as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, combined with the 2008 financial crisis and Wall Street public b
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by otterley 11d ago
Sure, but if all software is in the public domain, then the profit motive for developing software will be completely wiped out, and much less will be produced as a result. Software development be reduced to a hobby or developers will have t
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by otterley 11d ago
Of what?
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by otterley 11d ago
Nonsense. Thousands of new TV shows, songs, and apps that come out every year and put food on the table for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people that help produce them. Yes, some people and companies benefit disproportionately,
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by otterley 11d ago
> I think you're somewhat underestimating how effectively the far-left minority has scared others into silence Besides all the YouTube videos, X posts, the addition of two new right-wing TV networks (OANN and NEWSMAX), “Truth” Socia
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by otterley 11d ago
That is a false assumption.
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by otterley 11d ago
Free Software as a concept could not exist without copyright. Copyright is what allows the license to declare the terms under which a copy is permitted, including the provision that the source code ship with the binary form. (This is discus
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by otterley 11d ago
What happened around 2010 that might have precipitated whatever changes you’re thinking of?
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by otterley 12d ago
Copyright was not designed to maximize productivity. It was designed to maximize creativity and inventiveness (or, as stated in the US Constitution, the progress of science and the useful arts).
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by otterley 12d ago
I’m generally aligned with your point, but I also don’t think the official position of the Democratic Party is that we need a cultural revolution, nor do I observe most Democrats feel that way. What I do see is media and politicians on the
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by otterley 12d ago
I didn’t ask you. But since you chose to get involved: do you believe there is no lasting impact or consequences resulting from slavery in the USA?
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by otterley 12d ago
What’s your angle here, exactly? I don’t get it.
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by otterley 12d ago
For every rule there is an exception.
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by otterley 12d ago
I never ascribe malice to anyone who makes an honest mistake and doesn’t continue to double down when corrected, insisting they’re right or that they meant something else and everyone should have understood them somehow. There are lots of s
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by otterley 12d ago
> Copyright is serving exactly nobody today Except for nearly everyone who writes anything (including software) or other artistic pursuits to make a living. This includes a majority of people here on HN.
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by otterley 12d ago
If you say so, dude.

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