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  terop ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2023 @ 10:58pm

  You personally chose to stick to a business strategy that put one ad on one bus in London and called that your marketing genius plan.

  So, when I tested marketing area properties with a bus ad, that's supposedly some genius plan? Had that test actually worked, I might do it again. But since it just proved the activity futile, I didn't bother to do it again... Can you see how the test worked? It divides the world to multiple alternative universes and one of the alternatives must be true in our universe.

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  terop ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2023 @ 10:53pm

  Even if you opted to brainwash people into remembering it, or convert yourself into an immortal robot, or any of the twisted, dystopian lists you constantly try to convince us are options,

  "convert" is a good word here, given that the software that I'm building is basically just a set of 600 conversion functions that convert from one data format to another. Think of it as your "youtube-dl = conversion from youtube url to video file" or "ffmpeg is a conversion from mp4 file to avi file"... But I just have 400 such conversion functions. But I didn't need to go to the illegal area to build my converters.

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  terop ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2023 @ 01:57pm

  Your stated competitors have not only given permission,

  This permission does not fulfill the basic requirements for such a permission. 1) The author needs to get his employment from such a permission 2) The author needs to get enough money from the permission that he can comfortably spend money for necessities like rent, food, toiletpaper etc. 3) The permission must not be a replacement for copyright infringement, i.e. replicating the infringement properties in the permission specification is not allowed. So basically the license paperwork that free software, public domain, creative commons, open source are using should be going directly to the trashcan since they cannot fulfill even basic properties that such permission needs to fulfill. When such a permission is using the same properties than what is available in copyright infringement, we can do equivalence class between this licensing deal and the copyright infringement and a class action might have good chances of success.

  their tools have been used to create billions in new art.

  If the tools have been used to create billions worth of art, why is the authors of the tool struggling to pay their rent? Some middleman takes all the money?

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 08:44pm

  Tell them to pay what they feel it’s worth.

  Yes, thats what I'm doing in itch.io: the money question is at "give 0 or decide your own price", with the default set to 190e. Guess how many people signed up to this deal?

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 02:49pm

  If you wanted to stay away from humans so badly why even bother coming here?

  The government required that approach. Their position is that my money supply dries out in time, if I can't find someone external who is willing to spend money to the products that I create. So I spent 10 years focusing on creating high quality product that people would be willing to purchase, and when I offer it to marketplace, their response is to use someone elses software without permission from the copyright owner.

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 02:46pm

  You’re the one demanding that everyone here agrees with your bastardized interpretation of copyright.

  They don't need to agree with it, as long as they follow the limitations and burden that copyright law places to the end users of copyrighted products.

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 02:39pm

  You can offer me a lump of shit you personally laid from ten years ago, that’s not a reason for me to say anything nice about it.

  Yeah, but your evaluation of the shitty software failed to get cube to the screen. That's like the first feature you encounter when you try to properly use the software.

  we were all criminals who owed you money because the government of Finland didn’t make you filthy rich.

  Yes, this is all true information coming from the mouthpiece of the government. Basically when you're outside of the borders of finland, we need to spend significant amount of resources to hire airplanes and ships that transfer the products to your location. When we found easier way to do that, and you benefit from our invention of moving the product to internet instead of using older airplane/ships solution, you're bound to save significant amount of money. But to qualify for the money savings, you just need to purchase our meshpage product.

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 12:15pm

  Why do I need to pay for your software when I don’t even use it?

  1) it was bundled with microsoft windows and linux 2) it gets loaded whether you want it or not 3) your bill for the virus scanner failed to disclose what all software you support when you purchase the virus protection 4) It's impossible to remove it from your computer without breaking the whole package 5) When it's loaded, its main task is to calculate how much you use your computer and increase your next payment depending on your usage patterns 6) but the ads failed to mention it's actually harmful software that is bringing you nothing useful 7) But if you end up finding a way to remove it from your computer, you at the same time lose important 3d graphics that it implements 8) thus it works on every computer on the planet without installing special software for the computer, given that the modules that were missing from your computer's installation package will be automatically downloaded when you open the url to meshpage 9) meshpage has clear popup windows that instruct you to go pay for your computer usage 10) => more money for the authors of meshpage 11) =>=> so far we have gathered a whopping $58 from the marketplace.

  What legal position compels me to pay you for something I haven’t bought?

  It's the deals that microsoft and open source folks made behind your back when they allowed simple url like https://meshpage.org to open automatically without your permission or request.

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 03:19am

  And if software is copyrighted in one country but under fair use in another country are you going to fuck over the country that has a different copyright law?

  There isn't such thing as "software is under fair use". Just call it what it is: Copyright Infringement. No amount of bypassing the legal muster is going to make your blatant copyright infringement fall into fair use legislation. Repeat this few times: Fair Use is Not a Permission to Commit Copyright Infringement. What you need is proper permission from the copyright owner. Nothing else will give you permission to copy, distribute, perform these works. If that isn't possible, you simply do not have any permission to do those operations. And then you should stop doing those exclusive operations reserved for the authors and copyright owners only. Copyright owners in today's society are really slightly exclusive club which has special priviledges to do stuff that is forbidden from other people. But you simply cannot avoid that by trying reshape/restate the situation in different terminology. That simply isn't how the law works.

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 01:21am

  we all have to be murdered because you haven’t enriched yourself enough through copyright law.

  You have again invented this from your own ass.

  But then, that’s why your copyright enforcers in Prenda Law and Malibu Media are now in jail.

  They forgot to purchase "get-out-of-jail" playing cards from our legal eagle's accounting office. You get those cards if you hire actually competent lawyer to represent you in the court of law, instead of trying to build your own defense our of your misguided idea of how copyrights should work when you're blackmailing and extorting money settlements from unsuspecting copyright pirates. When pirates do not enter your trap, the evil practice that brought them to jail was bringing the product nearer to pirate's normal computer usage patterns. I.e. they were offering their own product and when the mouse enters the trap, they would launch full scale copyright attack on innocent pirate-candidates that had no idea why they were being procecuted. But these practices are not why we respect the prenda lawyers. It's the sex videos that they created that gives them copyright law's respect. We understand that their video cam has a record button and when you press the button and record the events that unfold after inviting some hookers to their camcorder sessions, they actually receive copyright law's biggest reward: the copyright ownership for the recorded material. While there are multiple quality levels and some idiot shaking the camera violently might not get the best quality reviews from the sex community, Prenda's copyright ownership for the material they recorded was never properly questioned by the courts or anyone. So their copyright story is actually valid legal position. It's the stupid pushing of their content to the piracy community that landed the lawyers to the jail, not because their ownership of the copyrights were questioned. So you should learn from this experience and start respecting other people's copyrights, and stop mixing completely unrelated criminal acts to the copyright's ownership positions.

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 01:04am

  And using the same font size in your development process is not a breakthrough

  Path to awesomeness is going through many small improvements, you do not need one big improvement to status quo. Breakthrough is not what i would call a bucket of thousand small bug fixes.

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 12:59am

  If your code is so poorly written that indentation becomes an issue, that’s not the fault of people critiquing your code.

  my code isn't indented to the right side of the editor window. It also doesn't have fart jokes as comments. So there is really no reason to complain about non-functional aspects of the code and there could be better ways to use your time. Like try to figure out working solutions to the memory problems or rendering glitches, or maybe light/shadowmaps etc. Still plenty of features to improve, but staring at fart jokes is not going to help one bit.

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 12:32am

  I did something stupid in December 2019: I read the Australian Copyright Act

  Yes, this is very big mistake. This is because the law as written can only specify the edge where the activity becomes illegal. It does not specify the location where your activity must be to remain legal. Only the edge is specified. Proper implementation of the copyright act stands firmly at the center of that copyright area, and not at the edge. But after reading the act, you only have information about the edge, i.e. what practices criminals are using when they cross that legal-illegal dividing line. You don't have the proper practices that should be followed to stay legal longer time. While those practices all depend on specific technology and situation, none of them are very near at the edge that the act specified.

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 12:16am

  I can assure you that if Pixar ever gets to a point where they need to accurately render a turbulent storm, they’ll do it

  That's the requirement I got from internet when I started working on my 3d engine. 10 years later, I still haven't solved the millennium problem, so water effect is nowhere to be found. We figured that navier-stokes existence and smoothness is required for turbulent flows and if we want pixel-perfect rendering, the hacks like texture-scrolling that games normally use are not sufficiently accurate representation of the water flows. There are just some technical problems with the math that prevents smooth solution of the navier-stokes. I don't think pixar is anywhere near solving navier-stokes. The hacks that ordinary games and rendering farms are using to simulate turbulent flows are not nearly accurate enough and anyone who has ever saw a real flame or smoke is able to recognize your hacks as insufficient simulation.

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  terop ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2023 @ 12:02am

  your genius plan to get someone in the government of Finland to use Meshpage

  The plan with the president is actually put Trump be the main character in our horror game located in a corn field full of evil children and using an axe to cut off heads of the children.

  I thought you had a stellar business plan that would prove all of us wrong?

  Yeah, young democrats like our display of Trump as a axe-wielding child-killer. The republicans just like it that we featured trump's hair in our game. Now that all stupid americans like our horror game, there's like unlimited amount of dollars coming our way. Perfect business plan.

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  terop ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2023 @ 11:54pm

  Copyright protection exists the moment something gets created.

  This isn't enough to "implement copyrights". The main requirement is to "respect copyright of other people". This means that if you build a platform, the platform shouldn't let end users violate other people's copyright, and definitely not encourage those violations.

  I’ve got works that have copyright protection,

  This isn't enough. You need to ensure that anyone in the world that has copyright claim for some works are being treated properly and their copyright is respected. You come out as someone who wants to enforce his own copyright, but do not have any respect for other people's copyrights, and thus you do not treat your fellow authors with the respect that they deserve. Anyone in the world that built working software deserves the respect that comes with the ownership of the working software system and it's just not valid argument to stare at your own work and ignore the copyright claims of all the other people in the world. Treat your fellow citizen's with the respect that you want yourself treated.

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  terop ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2023 @ 11:46pm

  You don’t respect fair use, for one, so you’ve already failed on that global validity front.

  fair use isn't available globally. For example, there are countries like russia which does not implement fair use rules.

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  terop ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2023 @ 11:44pm

  All anyone needs to say is that you implemented graphics using your own engine.

  sadly this isn't true. I'm not good at drawing bitmap graphics, so I actually got the ceo to draw some bitmaps for the game. But you should have known this result if you ever visited meshpage and saw my programmer art.

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  terop ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2023 @ 08:53pm

  The list of how many ways people can inadvertently violate copyright law is endless,

  Yes, this would be minor problem. Think of the situation where some poor soul that spent 20 years hidden deep inside google's organisation decides to start a business of his own using google's trademarks and their technology that noone else in the world is aware of. That's when copyright law is really needed. Right solution in this case would be to reconfigure their brainwaves and forget everything that happened inside google, but when this poor soul decides that following copyright is too difficult for him and decides to run with google's carefully researched technology, without any ability to control its behaviour or consiquences. The legal eagles are not paid significant amount of money for no good reasons, and when they need to take significant steps towards more legal position, you know that something horrible has happened. The real danger is when they let these technologies run without carefully designed restrictions and it breaks large area of the world.

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  terop ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2023 @ 06:52pm

  So you changed the names. You realize that name changes alone don’t mean shit, right?

  You don't seem to understand anything about how programmers work. These "names" are required to make programmer think the right way. The name change also changes how a programmer thinks, i.e. all our brainwaves were reconfigured to different settings. It's not just search/replace of the source code, but instead every time when a programmer writes new source code, he needs to think through different terminology and that changes everything about how the software is being designed. You really have to go so deep to avoid copyright infringement when you have a history of 20 years of being a sponge of new ideas coming from one direction only and then your whole world is taken away from you. Google just axed 12000 employees today, so they're next set of people who need to do the same process of changing their brainwaves to different settings. We predicted it two weeks early and our most recent ludumdare game explicitly has axe-feature implemented. See https://meshpage.org/441 for how it works. So our prediction ability might not be able to predict more than 2 weeks in advance against google's finetuned organisation, but we also predicted children of the corn kind of horror to happen, and we're still waiting for google to get their food supply, water supply, coca cola supply, corn flakes, canned food, potatoes, frozen veggies, etc to work properly before we are finished with our RIAA/MPAA fury.

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