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That title though. I clicked thinking there was yet another scandal in the brewing but it's actually a software named volkswagen. If nintendo goes batshit when
by INTPenis 8y ago
That title though. I clicked thinking there was yet another scandal in the brewing but it's actually a software named volkswagen. If nintendo goes batshit when people refurbish gameboys I wonder what volkswagen will do.
- gammateam 8y ago> I clicked thinking there was yet another scandal in the brewing but it's actually a software named volkswagen. Thats the joke though. It passes tests for you even when they would fail. Like Volkswagen AG
- nickthegreek 8y agomaybe remove it a bit, like voltzwagone.
- LinuxBender 8y agoI am not a lawyer, but if somewhere it says "a work of parody", that should suffice for fair use. That said, nothing stopping VW from raking them over the coals. Github would probably just take the repo or account down if it came to that.
- lixtra 8y agoI would expect vw to try this as low as possible. If they went to court they would learn about the Streisand effect.
- macintux 8y agoWell, their woes can't possibly be publicized any more widely, and 99.999% of the people who would read the news about such a lawsuit would have no use of the software, so I'm not sure the Streisand effect has any real meaning here.
- sampo 8y agoEurope tends to have less freedom for parodies than the US.
- LinuxBender 8y agoGood point.
- TomMarius 8y agoThis is OK though. (IANAL, but I've seen cases like this)
- hangonhn 8y agoIt doesn't even need to say it. Basically as long as the judge finds it funny and agrees it's satire, you're ok: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/828/1482/368753/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/828...
- tshannon 8y agoI wonder if this would fall under protections for satire.
- pvorb 8y agoI bet VW won't sue anyone about this soon to not have new negative publicity. And I agree, this is clearly satire.
- pvorb 8y agoSatirical software would be a cool new trend in Open Source. I think about things like a library for leader election, where there is a "Russian hacker" service that manipulates the election result or maybe a logging framework that accumulates logs and occassionally emails them to journalists.
- pvorb 8y agohttps://www.jollycode.org/ https://www.jollycode.org/, mentioned in another comment, is exactly what I was looking for.
- pc86 8y agoI bet nobody from VW is going to know this exists for a year or more, if ever. How many VW corporate employees do you think browse HN?
- InternetOfStuff 8y ago> How many VW corporate employees do you think browse HN? Out of more than 600'000? A bunch, I bet. (Yes, I was shocked at the number too)
- mhh__ 8y agoVW, presumably, has armies of software engineers/other technical people (That you might find on HN, etc) so I don't think it's unreasonable to assume someone will stumble across it. It's also worth saying that even if they don't have a automated system to look for x-infringement, they have many employees who when bored could end up searching for (say) Volkswagen on github. Whether they care or not is another matter...
- anonymfus 8y agoVolkswagen in this case has only trademark, unlike Nintendo in your example also having copyrights.
- paulie_a 8y agoEven if they raise an issue every once in a while you can tactictly tell them to go away. And the company will, swearing is sometimes useful in the response.
- LocalH 8y agoOfftopic: >If nintendo goes batshit when people refurbish gameboys Source for this? I know they've renewed their interest in going after ROM sites recently, but I've seen no indication they wish to stop people from repairing or refurbishing old, unsupported hardware.