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  • Trademarks I think are the most commonplace for this to happen, but I believe it applies to all IP. I don’t believe that any laws are written with specific timeframes but if the court feels that a right holder knew about and didn’t take action against an infringer within a “reasonable” time (as to be determined by the count based on the circumstances surrounding the case), then an implicit license is inferred.

    If this was not done, it would encourage right holders to wait out infringement in order to achieve larger settlements.





  • So just to be clear for all of you:

    Dolby is not a creator of AV1, Dolby is not in charge of licensing decisions for AV1. All companies involved in HVEC and AV1 have not performed bait and switch.

    What has happened is that Dolby alleges that they already have a patent on parts of what makes AV1 work. This may be an accident, or maybe someone stole Dolby’s tech. This may be something that can be fixed by changing how the software works, without breaking the file format.

    It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.

    Also, I’ve been saying it for 30 years at this point, and I will keep saying it: FUCK patents, software patents especially, and fuck the stupid system of capitalism for making them necessary





  • Nothing is being transported via constellation satellites that wasn’t already paid for by the American people (and then not delivered on).

    Why would we want our infrastructure to be the most polluting expensive version (with shit latency BTW so you can’t selfhost), in control of basically one asshole billionaire who will gleefully censor whatever he feels like, after a critical mass of dependency has been reached?

    Are you glad we put our communication into such a restrictive model under a monopoly that’s cozy with a fascist government?

    Stop lying to yourself and others that this was “the most efficient outcome”.


  • If you have the capability to build a laser that can focus enough energy, from the ground through the atmosphere, with enough precision to lock on to an LEO constellation member long enough to disable it, you’d probably already either be captured, or working for DoD.

    Also: great, you exploded it before reentry. Now we have a hundred thousand smaller, lighter fragments skipping off the atmosphere, disbursing randomly, and spinning around like hypersonic chaff bullets for actual worthwhile spacecraft and satellites to fly through, twinkling in infrared like a billion new streaky sparkles on those telescopes. It takes a lot longer for all that bullshit to rain down, and it pollutes just the same. Tell me, who were you fighting for again and why?

    This is like when the humans blacken the sky in the Matrix to defeat the machines. Yeah it wrecked the earth, but is also didn’t defeat them and they just found something else to exploit.




  • It’s not useless, It’s so they can analyze all the photos you ever take and see who you associate with and what products you own so they can determine your needs and likely income so they can put more ads in front of you that are likely to work

    Just like how they already scan all your private documents that they just decided were theirs to upload one day in order to see what you write about and how much you budget and h̶̘͖͐̂ȏ̵̖̀w̴̰̲̅ ̶̩͕͠ẙ̵̝͗o̶͙̓̍u̶͈͈͆̃ ̷̨̜̽f̸̫͌ͅu̸͎͒̓c̴̳̗͌͛k̶̰̏i̸͖̥̽ņ̶͇͋͝g̵̘̓ ̷͈̏t̶͓̋h̷̬͗͌͜ī̶̼͙̇ǹ̷̗̾ḱ̷͚̝̾ ̵̙̎̋a̵͇͐ǹ̵̩̼ḋ̸̩̗̐ ̵͚̘̈́o̶̥͑̍p̴̖̫̏̂ē̴̟̱̈r̸̖̜͂å̷̲̣t̶̥̍̓è̵͉̖