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I’m placing my imaginary bet on Walmart with a current revenue of 485,873 million US$ (sourcce: http://fortune.com/global500/).


Might be me, but US$ 25000 doesn’t seem to be enough.


LOL… when first reading the headline, my brain went "which proves KFC doesn't serve real food". ;)


Startups… not all of them can handle (let's just call it) "rejection". I've seen other reactions too, so — no, they're not all like that.


Makes Australia more inviting... again.


Let's see how that goes...


Same link as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12645282 makes me wonder if this youtube vid is being spammed by socket puppets. Sure feels like it when I look at the nicks…


Why is that? Is it that surprising that two different people (just two!) stumbled upon the same video, possibly from the same source? And neither of the submitters seems like a sock puppet account, both having hundreds of karma points.


I’ld say “technology” should be able to evolve beyond copy-and-paste without having to knock on the doors of intellectual property like a thieve in the night in each and every frigging situation like a little “cry baby”. After all, there’s always the option to offer a payment to the copyright holder to get according usage licenses… which tends to pay the rent for most people, companies, organisations, and institutions – including the EFF itself.

If “copyright” were that limiting and/or superfluous, there wouldn’t be much sense for EFF's use of a CC-BY license ( or their elaborate copyright policy blurb at https://www.eff.org/copyright )

This is one of those times I’m wondering again: why doesn’t EFF put its stuff into PUBLIC DOMAIN to lead the way (like some of us do with some projects)? Being against something they use themselves (see CC-BY) seems to be somewhat hypocritical from my point of view. But that might just be me standing on the soapbox of an “unlicense” (aka Public Domain) developer… ;)


Changing the title doesn’t make it different. The exact same link was shared before… see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12211025


That’s just a link-post. The actual article resides at http://www.law360.com/articles/821177/getty-hit-with-1b-copy...


A non-paywalled article about this incident has been posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12177230


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