| ▲ | LoganDark 5 hours ago |
| Is it even possible to sue a China-based company from the US? Would you even be able to seek any remedy other than banning import/sale of its product? |
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| ▲ | spott 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Banning import/sale of the product into the US is worth a hell of a lot. |
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| ▲ | LoganDark 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I wouldn't call that a win, though. I have a Bambu printer and it's very difficult to reproduce their tuning on open-source hardware or software. I think Klipper has vibration compensation now, but pressure advance and some other things require some tinkering and waste in order to set correctly, and you have to re-do them on any new nozzle/filament/temperature. Deciding nobody can have the software at all is completely opposite to the spirit of the license. "Yay, thanks to our challenge about this AGPL-licensed code, now even the binary is no longer available!" Sure, you can say it's harmful to the community to have features available without source code, but I wouldn't want the only alternative to be simply not having those features. (Anti-features are an exception) | | |
| ▲ | dspillett 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Deciding nobody can have the software at all is completely opposite to the spirit of the license. Any import block would be on the hardware, not the software. And the software would need to be released for other territories anyway. | | |
| ▲ | LoganDark an hour ago | parent [-] | | As a buyer I'd be just as unhappy to be unable to get the hardware. I already have some, but if I wanted some new feature it doesn't have and that open-source definitely doesn't have, I'd be miffed to say the least if I couldn't get it just because Bambu didn't release the source code. |
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| ▲ | tylergetsay 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Presumably they have _some_ assets in the USA |
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| ▲ | nekusar 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sure block them. Or they can pay statutory maximum copyright violations of $120000 per copy violated. Per copy. |
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| ▲ | polski-g 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| They could sue amazon to get a list of Bambu buyers, then go after them. |
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| ▲ | ChickeNES 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | You want them to go after the buyers?? | | |
| ▲ | polski-g 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes. It's the only way to cause material harm to the company. | | |
| ▲ | icehawk an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | How does that work when the buyers have already paid? | |
| ▲ | ChickeNES 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not at all, do you not understand how customs works? What cause of action do you propose against the buyers? Do you not care about the law, you just want maximum retribution? |
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