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The problem is that while one part of the corporation can encourage you to share that video, this does not prevent any another part of the same corporation to claim that this act is "infringement?

All they need to do is can claim "infringement" without having to prove anything, without any obligation of fairness, correctness, and no penalty when wrong. After that your website is taken offline, your income is frozen, your income disappears and only then you may sue to get it all back, without any possibility of being compensated for your time and expenses.

The problem is that there is no neutral, objective oversight before damage is done and no compensation of damages caused by wrongful enforcement, which leaves us without protection against overzealous, perhaps even full automated, enforcement.


To be honest, I never really liked the whole concept of an third-party "web plugin" for the browser? Either support the file-formats inside the browser or just download the file and let some (native) app of my choice deal with it? Would that be so bad?

I even question the wisdom of inline graphics? The screen is not really like paper. If there is a need for a "figure 1", then it would be almost always be more useful to have it display in a separate window next to the browser, so that you don't have to scroll up every time the text refers to something on this figure?


Navigating between two windows is much more annoying than scrolling up.


It might be in some implementations, but not always: Given a large enough display you could set them side by side and what could be easier then looking left/right?

Requiring scrolling is usually bad enough and only becomes worse the greater the distance.


I think we need an unconditional basic income for all?


With new jobs requiring increasingly more knowledge and skill there comes a point that it take longer to learn a new job then it takes for this job to become obsoleet?

Also, who is going to pay the bills while you are learning for your next job?

Innovation happens mostly during periods of abundance not during periods of actual scarcity. Innovation requires access to sufficient resources for experimentation and testing.

If scarcity really was the mother of invention then there would be no poor?


Maybe the easiest way to kill of patent trolls would be to regulate patent licensing?

Maybe even forbid licensing all together, at least for some kinds of patents?

Or, some mandatory licensing scheme dependent on the kind of patent with a low enough fixed percentage of the price?


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