Formerly https://lemm.ee/u/4am
You’ve never owned software in your life. Everything you’ve ever purchased is a license to use software. Even when you had physical media. Even when you own a disc or a cartridge.
Even FOSS.
If a company wanted to revoke it, it would be illegal for you to use that physical media. Enforcing it would be pretty unrealistic, but they could sue you for copyright infringement if they revoked your license and then found out you used it anyway.
To little too late, we’re all on our way out
Turns out it was copyright infringement! Who knew? /s
A relic of a better time
I mean, in my headcannon this feels true, but it’s probably only because of a few loud users in comment threads I’ve come across; I can’t really speak for the instance as a whole and it’s probably not the case.
feddit.org on the other hand…
No, but if you own $4billion in stocks and you borrow against it to live off of then you’ve realized that value and you get taxed heavily on it.
The idea is to get them to stop doing the “unlimited money glitch” of doing this.
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.
Oh, I’m not saying this to defend Dolby’s actions, IMHO and IANAL but this feels like a “see if this shit sticks” type of deal.
Maybe this is something specific that Snapchat’s implementation does and isn’t directly related to AV1 and the headline is clickbait? Hard for me to know.
I just wanted to point out that AV1’s consortium doesn’t seem to be rugpulling as some other commenters on here seem to feel.
They should all be destroyed
My sister in law is a conservative millennial and she does this anytime you mention anything negative about Trump
“They’re begging to make a deal, we can go wherever we want”
I feel like he’s talking to the American people, telling us we better drop the Epstein shit or he’ll invade more countries and thereby ruin ours even harder
Rhode Island is pretty bad sometimes
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
Too pedantic for normies
Lots of cool classic synth emulators here - true emulators, you need to ahem dump the firmware files from your legally owned gear.
Relevant to programming because they are emulating the DSP chips and they apparently figured them out via de-lidding techniques etc
To me, this just reads as “we can’t let the chuds get mad we elected a black president again”
…but maybe you mean neolibs. Its Lemmy, you mean neolibs…right?
This must go hard if you’re stupid
Now all he cares about is…this city
“96GB of DDR3” will never really be “low power”, take it from a guy who built a homelab with a DDR3 machines a while ago…but you should still pick up whatever hardware you can as soon as you can. Like, seriously, they’re taking personal computing away from us.
Zionist liberals, probably: “aren’t those the same?”