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  terop ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2023 @ 01:35am

  Interesting news..

  Some finnish hacker called Julius Kivimäki was arrested in france, after finland's police had put him on most wanted criminals -list in europe. Julius was on most wanted list because police has somehow linked him to hacking of vastaamo psykotherapy center and leaking all patient data to dark web/tor networks/bulletin boards for crims. Given patient data leaks are kinda serious GDPR matter with 10 million euros fines in EU, leaks of the patient data in this case is very serious matter too. There was over 22000 incident reports to the police recarding this issue and the hackers had misused the data/sent money extortion demands to the people whose information was present in the patient data. But at least julius gets off from most wanted list since he had been arrested. https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009369912.html https://yle.fi/a/74-20016279 https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/089913f2-4d6b-4053-a9e9-7d2610ebe639

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  terop ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2023 @ 10:35am

  I still make more money than you despite allowing people to share and remix my work legally means copyright has fuck-all to do with how successful one is.

  Asking for settlements is actually like 500 times more profitable than licensing the same material in the marketplace. Both the licensing activity and settlement activity require that you actually own the copyright.

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  terop ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2023 @ 08:32am

  I said almost always, but in your case it may be your personality, that is being a troll, that drives away interest.

  So this is an admission from you that the market is not interested in the technology that I have built, but instead they are staring at some trolling on techdirt? You gotta be kidding us? Why would some trolling be important when I have something significantly more powerful to offer, i.e. the actually working technology. It's no wonder that markets go to all kinds of evil scams, when they only look that the ceo is wearing the same kind of suit than steve jobs, and make their investment decisions based on that, instead of actually evaluating the technology that is available. Given that they didn't check Theranos blood testing startup technology until years and years after the investments, they should probably tighten their technology evaluation criteria's and go find the nerds that have the most promising technologies available, not the ones who wear nicest suit purchased from professional tailor.

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  terop ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2023 @ 08:24am

  What was insisted was the suggestion that when pursuing pirates, you provide strong evidence, do not harass the innocent, and stay within the boundaries of the law.

  It's the pirates that are outside the law, not the people who procecute them. It's explicitly allowed to start legal proceedings without enough evidence, if you're confident that discovery will reveal the pirate's full operation. While you don't beforehand know which apartment will have server farm that causes millions of damages to the copyright owners, you're sure that the ip-addresses that the pirates are using are in the list. Basically, copyright owners have arduous task of revealing illegal operations, and in that task, they wear the hat that ordinary police would be wearing if only they had resources left from procecuting more serious crimes. But when society puts responsibility to finding and highlighting the pirates to copyright owner's responsibility, it wouldn't be a surprise when some of them decide to use that permission.

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  terop ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2023 @ 08:13am

  I doubt they’ll give much notice to a madman who lives 15km from the nearest human.

  I think it's worse than that. My home computer is serving meshpage's web pages with a mere 24Mbps connection, so if there's 5 people connecting to the server at the same time, the connection is ddossed already. So when everyone is usa is wondering why their internet is so slow, one reason might be that the connection goes through my home computer.

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  terop ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2023 @ 06:10am

  Then why don’t they want to use it?

  The competition has been in the marketplace longer and has built strong following. So I lose in popularity.

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  terop ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2023 @ 06:02am

  Failure to sell is almost always a case of having a product that nobody in the market wants.

  There's only two ways to fix this problem: 1) either jump to completely different product 2) or do incremental improvements to the quality of the existing product I've chosen the second approach. I think markets for 3d engines are much better than the available other alternatives like creating computer games. Still we have to compete with things like blender, unity, unreal, godot etc, but the number of competitors are completely different than with computer games where every half year time, there will be an output of 3200 computer games in the marketplace. So the numbers game should be benefitting me as an engine developer.

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  terop ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2023 @ 10:48pm

  There’s no exception in copyright law that allows you to rape people to get rich the way you want it,

  Happily it doesn't need an exception to copyright law, only thing that is required is that the whole world follows copyright's default behaviour, i.e. leave the operations like copying, performing, distributing the work to the authors. No exceptions are needed for that, just follow the default behaviour is enough. Make sure your family, friends, and companies you work with will do the same.

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  terop ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2023 @ 07:21pm

  That explains why Prenda Law’s lawyers are both in jail, and Malibu Media ruined their own business pursuing copyright trolling.

  So why do you then insist that pirates should get free lunch from the backs of the authors? Isn't there similar kind of loophole in the activity that relies on fair use to mix&match hollywood movies to create indie videos, fast movies and gameplay videos?

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  terop ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2023 @ 07:13pm

  you chose to spend ten years on an engine nobody in any relevant industry uses

  I expected this problem to fix itself once the quality of the product improves. Of course you can't expect industry to change their established practices and jump into some completely unknown 3d engine for no good reasons. That's why my engine gives them a good reason to do it: it saves time when the requirement is to get 3d model to their web page. And time is money, so my solution saves them money.

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  terop ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2023 @ 07:08pm

  your entire argument is claiming that you can’t compete because someone else charges less money than you do.

  It's not just "someone else". If some random person charges less, it doesn't matter if my customers cannot find that someone else. But the reality is that the whole market is broken in that way. The software prices are approaching zero in the whole market, and customers are not willing pay the prices. It's called "market failure", when the market as a whole cannot support all its authors.

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  terop ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2023 @ 11:51am

  Check this out, this is classic blunders of what people in usa are doing when they try to stretch legal statues to fit their particular activity: https://torrentfreak.com/omi-in-a-hellcat-said-hed-kill-me-pirate-iptv-co-defendant-tells-court-230202/ The key information is this: ""Carrasquillo expressed surprise that the “legal loophole” he’d exploited had somehow let him down."" That sums up clearly what is happening in usa. Everyone expects that they can use loopholes and stretch the legal statues to their liking, but govt is actually fixing loopholes all the time, and courts do not consider activity that exploits the loopholes as legal.

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  terop ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2023 @ 08:50am

  Which route through what alternate universe did you take to get from A to B?

  It has the following elements: 1) software license is creative commons 2) thus your customers use it without paying compensation 3) thus your authors do not receive their compensation 4) but authors still spent tons of time creating it 5) thus authors can be called slaves, since they work without compensation 6) some authors choose being a slave since it benefits the society 7) that pattern has well known problem that without compensation, the activity is bound to stop when your slave runs out of money and society stops supporting his expenses 8) thus all creative commons, open source and free software is unstable, i.e. the authors need to disappear at some point because they cannot get their living expenses covered by creating that software 9) this problem has broken software market completely and the whole market has the same problem 10) at some point, this "bubble" is going to explode to their face

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  terop ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2023 @ 06:40am

  In all the years we’ve both been active selling our copyrighted works, I’ve made more money than you

  My mom also made more money than me, so you shouldn't be so quick to brag about your money situation.

  and I have a creative commons license on my music.

  This basically means that you're a slave. I know that slaves built the pyramids and when the task was finished they felt job well done, but if the management do not bother to pass along perks and rewards for the well done job and the families need to starve even though the job was done properly, something is wrong with the companies that support the activity.

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  terop ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2023 @ 01:32am

  if you don't want your youtube channel obliterated with copyright strikes, you shouldn't post other people's videos without first obtaining licenses to the material. meshpage has something even better. It rejects the video file format, so that it becomes technically impossible to post someone elses video file to the site. We also forbid end users from posting any content to the site, to ensure that end user content does not mess with our marketing material. Instead of those, we let end users host their 3d models and other content on their own web sites. This decentralised approach makes it more resistant to RIAA/MPAA legal paperwork site-closing actions than maintaining centralized web site, but it also forces our end users to obtain their own popularity instead of relying of popularity of the centralized server setup.

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  terop ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2023 @ 10:38pm

  the policy is retroactively deeming their videos in violation of new rules and affecting their ability to make money on the platform.

  But these people already benefitted from their rule violation, and slurped tons of money from unsuspecting children population. While regular video creators who did everything correctly (like ourselves) were left stranded to the beach, when all focus was on who publishes the most shocking and discusting videos to the public. In a world where taliban is getting twitter's green badge of honor, youtube could be the shining light that shows to correct way to handle bullies and idiotic behaviour. But guess no.

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  terop ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2023 @ 08:21am

  You’ve spent a lot of time advocating the burning of books in the public domain.

  Well newton's gravity is the only thing left from 1700s. So they keep disappearing all on their own and new memes like "does it blend?" take its place. I was thinking maybe its time to let newton rest, and get religious nuts burn our gravity.

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  terop ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2023 @ 08:08pm

  Knowing and properly applying the law as a judge requires payment now?

  The judge just needs to check if you paid the license fees for the copyrighted law books that you're using in your defense.

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  terop ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2023 @ 02:18am

  If you burn a book, it doesn't change the underlying reality

  Here's good test case for any terrorists wanting to burn some books: 1) take an apple, and drop it from height of 5m 2) take a book about newton's gravity 3) burn the book 4) repeat the test/drop an apple at height of 5m 5) check the results. If book burning changes the newton's laws, you might have a point. My guess is that the book burning has only very small amount of changes to the falling speed of the apple.

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  terop ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2023 @ 12:26am

  there might be a universe out there where you’re not a pathetic loser with delusions of grandeur who spends his free time spouting nonsense on a site where everyone laughs at you.

  With time techdirt will grow from high school level fart jokes to actually productive members of the society. When that happens, they might reconsider their "everyone laughs" -position. I'll still be here to give correct copyright information when that happens, and it should be enough for you.

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