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• On the post: PUBG Corp. At It Again: Sues Garena, Apple, And Google For Copyright Infringement Over 'Free Fire' App

  

  terop ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2022 @ 04:58am

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  Blender should sue Meshpage.

  Good luck with that plan. My lawyers will surely respond to it with the following battery of arguments:
  1) no access to blender or any works created with blender during development (The cave troll defense)
  2) independently created via exploring the same maze from intel cpus (The maze defense)
  3) Software was brought to stable base status before letting outside software ruin the copyright story (The stable base defense)
  4) Remaining problems are math related (Mathematics is not copyrightable subject matter -defense)
  5) Independently created without dependencies to infringing material (The independent creation -defense) Basically, there's significant defenses available against your accusations.

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  terop ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2022 @ 04:37am

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  Expressions of ideas have copyrights, but to infringe upon those, you have to basically lift that shit wholesale.

  To infringe the copyright, you just need some elements:
  1) access to the previous work
  2) some process that lifts elements from previous work to the new work These are the only things needed. When companies give their employees access to competitor's products, it's already very dangerous activity copyright-wise. Once the access is granted, there's very small steps needed when it becomes illegal when all kinds of processes involving human brains or photographs or fullscale examination of the essential elements of the previous work will give rise to the copyright infringements. Basically only way to protect against this is to ensure that your employees don't have access to competitor products.

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  terop ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2022 @ 03:45am

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  That’s how the industry moves forward.

  Too bad it's not real forward movement, when the activity is based on copyright infringements. Proper innovation is actually fine-tuning the concept from beginning to the end. It just depends on the greatness of the development process whether you get successes out from it, not depending on who you ripped off of.

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  terop ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2022 @ 02:52am

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  I must be doing something right, when anonymous cowards are calling me idiot.

• On the post: The World Handled A 'Wordle' Ripoff Just Fine Without Any IP Action

  

  terop ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2022 @ 12:40am

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  3D models in webpages? That's so early 2000s.

  But still the top100 most popular sites do not have 3d models available in their sites. Something must have failed in their 2000s implementation, so we have another chance of implementing it correctly.

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  terop ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2022 @ 12:31am

  PUBG will win...

  There's no question about it, PUBG will win this fight. There's just too many similarities in the games. It's not just that they cloned all the gameplay ideas, but their feature list is almost the same in both games. Are they both using the same 3d engine, or why is competition of PUBG able to create the same scenes than what PUBG is displaying before end users had chance to play through PUBG's offering?

  If they actually offered some original ideas, the competition wouldn't be able to quickly clone the material. It seems neither of the games deserve the publicity that they're getting, given that they failed to work hard enough to keep competition at its bay.

  But legal entities are only looking at creation date, and whether the authors gave credit to the other party. Anything else is simply irrelevant and this is why PUBG will win this fight.

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  terop ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2022 @ 03:10am

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  You do realise you just included Meshpage in that comment, you little pirate you.

  Yes, I can't know all inside trading rules that exists in the stock market.

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  terop ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2022 @ 02:27am

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  No, because I didn't like the product, not because I couldn't get it to work. Not every piece of software is for everyone and "not for me" is a perfectly valid reaction to even the best designed, bug free application.

  It's clearly a bug in the product, if users do not like it. Product developers are creating significant amount of features to their products to avoid the fate that users will reject it for no good reason.

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  terop ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2022 @ 02:24am

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  if only all of my competition were made illegal...

  This isn't required. The products are slightly illegal already at the time when they get popular among end users. My position is that all products on the planet are illegal in some ways. This is required feature before the product is able to get popularity.

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  terop ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2022 @ 07:53pm

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  And how's that gamble paid off so far?

  We get decisions like this:
  https://torrentfreak.com/adblocking-does-not-constitute-copyright-infringement-court-rules-220118/

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  terop ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2022 @ 07:50pm

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  why the hell do I need to be your yardstick?

  When comparing things, you should avoid the following:
  1) comparing someone's work to the best work on the planet
  2) comparing one person's work to the combined effort of a continent
  3) comparing one person's work to a flexible assignment of authors
  4) comparing output of different work amounts
  5) comparing output based on popularity
  6) comparing different time ranges, like 1700-1800 compared to 10 years of work by one person
  7) etc-- You get the idea. Somehow the comparision is unfair if your comparision targets are not similar type.

  For that matter, why are you competing with me?

  You're better target than blender or maya, since you don't have 200 people working for you.

  Where's your Scott Cawthon copyright notice?

  You should ask where's the model? It simply disappeared from the front page.

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  terop ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2022 @ 03:05pm

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  I've tried many products over the years that have been instantly deleted because they were not good.

  Yes, because getting technology to work properly is more difficult task than you think. It's like trying to turn inanimate rock into a living entity. You design what each part of the technology needs to do, write accurate code that implements the commands, and then your frankenstein monster will be alive. Once vampires have accepted the monster to be alive, there will be techdirt folks who still think it's a dead rock that cannot move. Even after significant amount of proof that the rock moves independently and makes decisions without being kicked, techdirt refuses to declare it a living thing. The proof is all around you, but you refuse to accept the truth. It's alive.

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  terop ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2022 @ 12:43pm

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  "I have 2 paying customers over the decade I've been whining here"

  You missed the real news item. There's actually 437 suckers who downloaded the product. Either your claims that meshpage is useless does not hold, or we have over 400 people who got sucked into trying the offering... This kind of numbers are simply not fitting the message that you want to spread around. Someone might conclude that meshpage is useful to real customers, if you focus on the real important numbers.

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  terop ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2022 @ 06:17am

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  But you should know that already, because you still have zero users.

  The statistics are slightly different than just zero users: $6.00 Gross Revenue, 2 Payments, 2,302 Views, 437 Downloads, 17
  Followers. It's slightly more than 0 users.

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  terop ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2022 @ 05:43am

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  Who's going to bring that lawsuit, you? Don't make me laugh.

  Nice thing about gdpr is that I don't even need to sue the bastards myself. It's enough that someone in the world sues them. But if these folks have troubles implementing copyright's rules, their gdpr implementation isn't going to fly too far either. GDPR is significantly more difficult to implement properly than copyright laws. It's just that copyright has been around long time, and if your developers couldn't get these "copyright maximalist principles" implemented in that time, they have no fucking way of implementing the harsh demands of the GDPR legislation. The government tried to encourage market participants to implement the rules, by placing 10 million bucks fines for anyone who does not conform the strict legal rules. The experience with vendors ignoring copyright maximalist practices kinda hinted to the direction that proper fines are necessary.

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  terop ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2022 @ 05:31am

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  That's stretching the "professional" aspect,

  It's still significantly better than what you can do. All we've heard from you is trolling and bashing systems that are ready for customers. When exactly you got your systems ready to be used by real customers?

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  terop ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2022 @ 05:29am

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  What advantages have been built into Meshpage

  It's still able to display 3d models on webpages, if you failed to notice that minor feature. This is still significantly better than what you are able to do in your own web page. We don't even need to take Blender or Maya as examples, but focusing on what YOU can contribute to the well-being of the internet phenomenon.

  You called every service under stricter copyright rules by your precious RIAA infringing.

  Stricter rules are necessary or web development is completely impossible when the end result has more gaps than your average cheese.

  I've already seen how you "preserve copyright" on your site.

  Yeah, like displaying copyright notices and giving credit to the people who contributed to the horror.

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  terop ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2022 @ 04:52am

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  Although the term wasn't trademarked, using that in the name would appear to be a deliberate attempt at confusing customers, for the direct purpose of profiting from the confusion.

  Trademarks exist even though the original authors have not registered their name. Basically trademark registration is optional, if the name has been consistently used in the marketplace, then it gains trademark protection, even if you didn't register it. Of course registration have some benefits, but it's not necessary if usage of the name is otherwise consistent in the marketplace. Registration is more for checking that you don't accidentally violate someone else's trademarks.

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  terop ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2022 @ 12:23am

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  > It is copyright infringement if they copy the product made by someone else. You're going to be waiting for a long, long time before Blender or Pixar gets sued for copyright infringement.

  if copyright argument doesn't work, can always base your lawsuit to GDPR. There's like 10 million bucks damage awards waiting if they forgot to implement popups to their web site...

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  terop ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2022 @ 12:17am

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  Well, then. I guess to satisfy you, we can regard Meshpage as software built on a foundation of piracy and copyright infringement.

  Always focusing on the negative aspects and ignoring the advantages that have been built to meshpage. While there are rough spots in it, like all other services, calling it infringing is kinda harsh and unfounded. Maybe you should build your own web site and watch how strong copyright you can preserve in your site.

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