| ▲ | saghm 3 hours ago |
| > Google and Apple are useless for dmca unless you have a court order. This is especially egregious in Google's case given how trigger happy they are with pulling YouTube videos with a simple claim that something is infringing. I guess unless you can lobby them at the level of the music industry, their default policy is to do nothing. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Let's consider an independent dev making claims vs the army of lawyers from RIAA/MPAA type claimants. Which one do you think evilCorps will pay attention to? |
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| ▲ | rustcleaner an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | This is why awards need to be based on % of total assets or revenue of the defendant. If little guy beats the big guy defendant, little guy should walk away with millions or billions. If big guy wins against the little guy defendant, it's just hundreds or thousands. It makes relatively poor individuals who can't afford a team of effective lawyers lawsuit proof, while making those who can wage effective lawfare juicy targets if they so much as fudge the line with the outside of their shoes! | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 37 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > with the outside of their shoes! But it's the outside of the boot that lets you bend it. (yeah, I'm watching a World Cup match as I type this) |
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| ▲ | nikanj 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The lawyers from evilCorps are on a first-name basis with the key lawyers from the copyright lobby, because their fates are fully intertwined |
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| ▲ | fantasizr an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| reminds me of this woman who had copyright filed against her for playing moonlight sonata. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577 if not for the complete hassle and threat to her livelihood, it might be laughable. |
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