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Unjust laws should be defied
Actually, we can defy laws aimed at keeping monopolies rich. Justification is the efforts they put into destroying alternatives they do not control. Even the US Patent office recognizes the "interoperability" issue to a limited extend. I will now explain how even in the US we so easly get away with defying software patents, as I do openly:
Keep in mind, as an individual user, not in an office, MPEG-LA cannot find you, and cannot read your hard drive to determine what software you run your video card with. An attempt to do so would require installing malware similar to Sony's XCP rootkit and would scupper any lawsuits based on the take from that malware. The countersuits would do great harm to MPEG-LA as well. This is NOT like Hollywood's crusade against filesharing, where IP addresses are simply read from public torrents if not using a darknet.
MPEG-LA also cannot simply get lists of Linux users from popular websites's IP logs, subpeona IP address to user records from ISP's and then get a warrant to search Linux computers for "illegal" codecs or video acceleration programs. No judge would approve the warrant. Also, it would take very few lawsuits against individual computer users over non-corporate controlled software to cause millions, maybe tens of millions of people, to decide the only way to protect themselves was to discard and destroy ALL computing devices and clear their homes of all products related to the offending industry. This may be the biggest deterrent of all.
The biggest threat is actually trade deals like the TPP and TTIP that could make it difficult to host patent-busting and interoperability software in places like Europe. There will always be countries that refuse to sign trade deals and make more money hosting "outlaw" servers anyway, but proposed trade deals usually include Internet censorship these days, so you could in the future have to download future open codecs against future patented codecs via Tor or a descendent therof. Thus, we should try to sink future codec patents, and to sink sales of products containing patented software without which they cannot be fully used. The existing patents will expire before such a threatening regime can be put fully into place, but we've got to sink any new ones and sink these dirty trade deals. Much of the work I do with video is covering protests and disruption aimed at the people behind things like TPP and TTIP, including protests at their homes.
Given that I have already had one encrypted computer defeat a police raid after a protest they especially disliked-and been part of a group that defeated a lawsuit from "Goldman-Sucks," over residential protests, I am not easily intimidated by threats from patent trolls. They can't read my system, can't get my legal name from ANYTHING, hell I don't even have an ISP registered to my address anywhere in the world. They can kiss my ass with their software patents...
Originally posted by Mat2
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Keep in mind, as an individual user, not in an office, MPEG-LA cannot find you, and cannot read your hard drive to determine what software you run your video card with. An attempt to do so would require installing malware similar to Sony's XCP rootkit and would scupper any lawsuits based on the take from that malware. The countersuits would do great harm to MPEG-LA as well. This is NOT like Hollywood's crusade against filesharing, where IP addresses are simply read from public torrents if not using a darknet.
MPEG-LA also cannot simply get lists of Linux users from popular websites's IP logs, subpeona IP address to user records from ISP's and then get a warrant to search Linux computers for "illegal" codecs or video acceleration programs. No judge would approve the warrant. Also, it would take very few lawsuits against individual computer users over non-corporate controlled software to cause millions, maybe tens of millions of people, to decide the only way to protect themselves was to discard and destroy ALL computing devices and clear their homes of all products related to the offending industry. This may be the biggest deterrent of all.
The biggest threat is actually trade deals like the TPP and TTIP that could make it difficult to host patent-busting and interoperability software in places like Europe. There will always be countries that refuse to sign trade deals and make more money hosting "outlaw" servers anyway, but proposed trade deals usually include Internet censorship these days, so you could in the future have to download future open codecs against future patented codecs via Tor or a descendent therof. Thus, we should try to sink future codec patents, and to sink sales of products containing patented software without which they cannot be fully used. The existing patents will expire before such a threatening regime can be put fully into place, but we've got to sink any new ones and sink these dirty trade deals. Much of the work I do with video is covering protests and disruption aimed at the people behind things like TPP and TTIP, including protests at their homes.
Given that I have already had one encrypted computer defeat a police raid after a protest they especially disliked-and been part of a group that defeated a lawsuit from "Goldman-Sucks," over residential protests, I am not easily intimidated by threats from patent trolls. They can't read my system, can't get my legal name from ANYTHING, hell I don't even have an ISP registered to my address anywhere in the world. They can kiss my ass with their software patents...
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