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It would have been surprising and mildly impactful on the world at large, had Facebook lost. So the tech journalists were following it in the small chance that

by rdw 5y ago

It would have been surprising and mildly impactful on the world at large, had Facebook lost. So the tech journalists were following it in the small chance that that happened. It really seems like the folks who are upset at the lack of coverage are so emotionally invested in this trial for whatever reason that they can't see the truth that there's no reason to care about it outside of the personal feelings of the celebrities involved. At least with SCO v IBM, and Oracle v Google, the rulings could, and did, have significant impacts on how regular tech folks went about their careers.

tehlike 5y ago
If you always show bad things about fb, then you are controlling the narrative and making people believe fb is evil. If particular news outlet didn't cover before-trial, you would be ok for them to not cover trial outcome. But if you cover before trial, it's in public's best interest you cover the outcome. An analogy is some news outlet covering a murder trial and presenting the suspect as a ruthless criminal. By your logic, news should not cover if the criminal case turns out baseless... does that sound good to you? That's why
- rtpg 5y ago
  Yes some civil claims about IP theft are definitely comparable to murder. The reason that this gets covered before is that it sounds like juicy gossip. Turns out the gossip isn't "true" enough to get an interesting court result. So it's not really news. Those articles are just gossip.n the words of Dennis Nedry, nobody cares. The intersection of people who think that FB is evil because of IP theft in the occulus thing but who don't also just come to this conclusion from all the other FB coverage of their non-action to stop genocides (random example), is the empty set.
  - tehlike 5y ago
    By your logic companies go into ip trials all the time so trial itself is boring. Ridiculous.
    - rtpg 5y ago
      Nah, that's not what I'm saying. "Someone makes intense claim regarding IP law theft": interesting! Maybe it's true? If it's true, that is interesting in itself! It's pure palace intrigue with basically no important consequences (even if Palmer Lucky were to lose all his money he would end up being fine in the way that everyone above a certain strata ends up only falling up). "Turns out the claim is not accepted by the courts": given that this didn't really matter for anyone beyond the two people, not interesting! The important aspect here being this is like a dispute around money with really no consequences. Of course doesn't help that the people involved are not exactly super friendly. Palace intrigue. Fun to read about and talk about! Not important
concordDance 5y ago
It feels like showing the wins as well as the losses would result in the public getting a less distorted picture.

by rdw 5y ago

tehlike 5y ago

If you always show bad things about fb, then you are controlling the narrative and making people believe fb is evil. If particular news outlet didn't cover before-trial, you would be ok for them to not cover trial outcome. But if you cover before trial, it's in public's best interest you cover the outcome. An analogy is some news outlet covering a murder trial and presenting the suspect as a ruthless criminal. By your logic, news should not cover if the criminal case turns out baseless... does that sound good to you? That's why

rtpg 5y ago
Yes some civil claims about IP theft are definitely comparable to murder. The reason that this gets covered before is that it sounds like juicy gossip. Turns out the gossip isn't "true" enough to get an interesting court result. So it's not really news. Those articles are just gossip.n the words of Dennis Nedry, nobody cares. The intersection of people who think that FB is evil because of IP theft in the occulus thing but who don't also just come to this conclusion from all the other FB coverage of their non-action to stop genocides (random example), is the empty set.
- tehlike 5y ago
  By your logic companies go into ip trials all the time so trial itself is boring. Ridiculous.
  - rtpg 5y ago
    Nah, that's not what I'm saying. "Someone makes intense claim regarding IP law theft": interesting! Maybe it's true? If it's true, that is interesting in itself! It's pure palace intrigue with basically no important consequences (even if Palmer Lucky were to lose all his money he would end up being fine in the way that everyone above a certain strata ends up only falling up). "Turns out the claim is not accepted by the courts": given that this didn't really matter for anyone beyond the two people, not interesting! The important aspect here being this is like a dispute around money with really no consequences. Of course doesn't help that the people involved are not exactly super friendly. Palace intrigue. Fun to read about and talk about! Not important

concordDance 5y ago

It feels like showing the wins as well as the losses would result in the public getting a less distorted picture.