Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7660078" data-attributes="member: 6689464">Which is a privilege, it gives you an advantage that not everybody has. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (sorry for the unintended vitriol)(In case you are wondering, my country's name roughly translates to what I said in the sidebar -just adjusted to sound more poetic-. You just need to say it in a certain language, and curiously that language's endonym is roughly the same word as the country's name)It can be something as simple as owning a cutter, and the punishment can be as hard as a felony/ a third strike which means prison time. I never said I don't trust anybody, I just don't have blind faith in the system. A judge ruling would be a good thing overall to clarify the limits of IP law, which depending on the actual ruling either means less abusive C&amp;Ds or clearer limits which allow people to be more free to create. Something of an improvement over the current situation were a big corporation with lots of money can engage in scare tactics with impunity exercising rights it may not have. One thing is knowing you are right and that justice in your side, another very different is having the time and tens of thousands of dollars to waste in legal fees to get a favorable ruling. Even if you win, your reputation is ruined just by the mere fact of having been through a criminal process, and all those legal fees you'll never see them back.&nbsp; There is a reason innocent people plead guilty.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7660078, member: 6689464"] Which is a privilege, it gives you an advantage that not everybody has. ;) (sorry for the unintended vitriol) (In case you are wondering, my country's name roughly translates to what I said in the sidebar -just adjusted to sound more poetic-. You just need to say it in a certain language, and curiously that language's endonym is roughly the same word as the country's name) It can be something as simple as owning a cutter, and the punishment can be as hard as a felony/ a third strike which means prison time. I never said I don't trust anybody, I just don't have blind faith in the system. A judge ruling would be a good thing overall to clarify the limits of IP law, which depending on the actual ruling either means less abusive C&Ds or clearer limits which allow people to be more free to create. Something of an improvement over the current situation were a big corporation with lots of money can engage in scare tactics with impunity exercising rights it may not have. One thing is knowing you are right and that justice in your side, another very different is having the time and tens of thousands of dollars to waste in legal fees to get a favorable ruling. Even if you win, your reputation is ruined just by the mere fact of having been through a criminal process, and all those legal fees you'll never see them back. There is a reason innocent people plead guilty. [/QUOTE]

Verification