The rise of copyright trolls

Posted May 3, 2017 12:47 UTC (Wed) by armijn (subscriber, #3653)
In reply to: The rise of copyright trolls by aggelos
Parent article: The rise of copyright trolls

I didn't shift anything. Please read more carefully.

It seems that a few of you are trying to put *me* on trial here for flagging a serious issue that companies are having (trolling because there is no social norm around compliance which is a different problem than general non-compliance with the GPL). I understand the anger, but it is not very productive.

The rise of copyright trolls

Posted May 3, 2017 13:20 UTC (Wed) by aggelos (subscriber, #41752) [Link]

I specifically pointed to where I noticed the shift. If I have misread, please explain how.

My impression is the "anger" as you perceive it, comes from how the disproportionate the talking up of the "potential" issues is to the evidence brought forward. Personally, I'm all for hearing your reading of the EU packaging directive to justify a potential conflict with the GPL and less for how this "could be bigger than patents" (attributed to Coughlan), nebulous "uncertainty" (your comment here), "I really wish it were as simple as that.<EOM>" and other such fearmongering.

So yah, it could happen that you'll make a clear case and be faced with anger and denial. But AFAICT this hasn't happened yet.