What if... (just thinking aloud here) ... What if the judgement for patent infringements was paid to the government, instead of to the Plaintiff?
That would reduce legit infringement somewhat, and make things unprofitable for folks who were just trolling for dollars.
What I'm wondering about is why Valve has suddenly reversed its policy here.
Valve used to handle the transfer of games from deceased accounts to live accounts with grace and relative simplicity (there was a bit of fussiness about paperwork and letters of administration, but that's all).
Now, suddenly Valve comes right out and says, "Hey, we did it for a couple decades, but we're going to suddenly stop now"?
Why?
If you're waiting for Lindsey Graham and the Republicans of the Senate judiciary committee to solve the problem, you're going to die waiting.
Basically, every tentative solution they seem to have come up with so far hurts either kids, or Republicans - or both - but they can't seem to stop themselves from aiming squarely at their own feet.
We used to have this bullshit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format
20 years ago, this made it very hard for email with attachments to interoperate well between Outlook and non-Outlook mail clients. Caused me no end of expensive headaches.
I find it hard to fathom why the CEO of the corporation would basically imply that his company has spent untold amounts of time and money to transform innocuous printer cartridges into delivery systems for network security threats.
Because that's what he's doing. On television.
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Wow. Lucky that 18 U.S. Code § 2384 doesn't apply to any of this, I guess.
What if... (just thinking aloud here) ... What if the judgement for patent infringements was paid to the government, instead of to the Plaintiff? That would reduce legit infringement somewhat, and make things unprofitable for folks who were just trolling for dollars.
Quite the reversal
What I'm wondering about is why Valve has suddenly reversed its policy here. Valve used to handle the transfer of games from deceased accounts to live accounts with grace and relative simplicity (there was a bit of fussiness about paperwork and letters of administration, but that's all). Now, suddenly Valve comes right out and says, "Hey, we did it for a couple decades, but we're going to suddenly stop now"? Why?
To paraphrase just slightly,
If you're waiting for Lindsey Graham and the Republicans of the Senate judiciary committee to solve the problem, you're going to die waiting. Basically, every tentative solution they seem to have come up with so far hurts either kids, or Republicans - or both - but they can't seem to stop themselves from aiming squarely at their own feet.
We used to have this bullshit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format 20 years ago, this made it very hard for email with attachments to interoperate well between Outlook and non-Outlook mail clients. Caused me no end of expensive headaches.
I thought that was the definition of 'practice'.
I'd be embarrassed, personally...
I find it hard to fathom why the CEO of the corporation would basically imply that his company has spent untold amounts of time and money to transform innocuous printer cartridges into delivery systems for network security threats. Because that's what he's doing. On television.