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Someone deeply involved in Creative Commons writing about professional copyright trolls abusing it is "nonsensical crap" and a "bad use of time"?

• toyg 5y ago
  He had already written about it, and it's a lot of noise over nothing - Pixsy are not going to sue him, today or tomorrow. Their continued trolling was effectively begging for this sort of reaction, which they duly obtained. This is the internet equivalent of political talk shows with people shouting at each other: nothing gets done, nothing changes, and it only benefits the shout-heads.
  • philistine 5y ago
    Patent trolls have gotten a tougher time making money because we have kept talking about the problem. See this example here, which refers to the TC Heartland decision, and politicians saying a judge's decision is reprehensible: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/appeals-court-east-texas-cant-keep-patent-case-because-of-one-local-salesman/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/appeals-court-ea... There is such a thing as the court of public opinion, and legal progress is made by talking about debilitating legal crap.
    • toyg 5y ago
      But this isn’t that. This is not even a letter before action. This is just a bunch of inconsequential emails.