Luminous5481

Looks like the GIthub was taken down before this was even posted.

The struggle is how to come up with a system that minimizes the loopholes while not entirely crippling the things they are intended to protect.

the "things they are intended to protect" is profits for the rich.

The fact that you consider it so black and white

it is black and white. the patent system is a capitalist invention with no benefit to society.

Without some protections on human creations you end up with a war of who can steal the most ideas

you can't "steal" ideas any more than you can copyright them. you think that just because you signed some piece of paper, that nobody else can come along and do it anyway? as a pirate who "steals" all media and video games they consume, let me be the first to tell you that you are out of your mind. the only thing enforcing patents is the monopoly the government has on violence. the same government whose police force started as slave catchers. the same government that refuses to charge the rich and powerful from the Trump-Epstein list. patents exist to protect the profits of the rich and powerful, they do not exist to protect you.

You end up putting resources toward protecting your ideas and keeping them entirely secret

the patent system is no different than that. "your" ideas might not be secret, but nobody else can legally make use of them. there's no practical difference. either way, the benefits those idea bring are restricted to the few people with enough money to purchase access to them.

I’m not arguing that they have no downsides, I’m arguing that the position of “it’s all bad, get rid of it” is reductive, at best.

that's because you either don't understand the basics of capitalism, or you defend it because it's the only chains you've ever known. or you're rich and pretending you're not.

whatever the case, anyone who has a patent is a leech on society, and all patent holders should be hanged by the neck until dead. when we said "eat the rich", what we mean is kill them all. sorry if that bit confused you.

Patents give an incentive to actually do the R&D for new products and projects?

when Sir Frederick Banting invented insulin, he patented it not for greed, but to protect it from the patent system. he famously said, ''Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.''

a hundred years since then, and corporations have patented new forms of insulin that slightly changed the original formula. they sue anyone who tries to make generic insulin, in order to prevent competition. the EXACT FUCKING THING BANTING TRIED TO PREVENT. the patent system is a weapon that has literally taken untold thousands of lives just from that one example.

patents don't incentivize shit, and you're just the latest person without critical thinking skills to fall for that capitalist bullshit propaganda. the patent system exists for one reason, and that's to monetize ideas so that corporations can choose who gets to improve the world based on who has the biggest wallet.

Besides, patent trolling is not completely negative.

The very idea of intellectual property is ludicrous and absurd. The concept of owning ideas is one of the most ridiculous notions that capitalism ever came up with. There are absolutely zero positive benefits to society when it comes to patents. They are the very reason people can’t afford lifesaving medicines and farmers can’t replant their own seeds. Anyone who owns a patent is a leech and should be hanged by the neck until dead.

Pocket change when it comes to Valve

Pocket change when it comes to a Rothschild as well. This isn’t going to discourage them, that family is the dictionary definition of old money.

conspiracies are plans made in secret. it's not a secret that tech companies are trying to gouge people for everything they own, that's just basic capitalism and every corporation is trying to do that. maybe spend less time being a snarky edgelord on fedi and more time actually using that brain millions of years of evolution gave you.

It’s moral and just to murder Nazis.

Jellyfin supports DV as well, so it isn't a reason after all.

Does anyone have a working setup

Any Jellyfin setup would do, as long as whatever you're watching it on supports DV.

You're right, that was my bad

Just to clarify, somebody suing another party doesn't automatically mean that party broke any laws.

Yes, that’s literally what I said. Fan art may not be illegal, but it’s not legal either. The point is moot, however. If a corporation with billions or trillions of dollars can sue you with impunity, while even a meager defense can financially ruin you for life, then there is no practical difference between a legal and illegal act. The fact remains that fighting someone like Disney over something like fanart is beyond the ability of nearly everyone on earth.

Fan art is not illegal.

Off the top of my head, I know both Disney and Nintendo have sued people for making fan art. Fair use doesn’t explicitly allow you to make fan art, regardless of its transformative nature, and whether or not you owe Disney hundreds of thousands of dollars for drawing Mickey depends on court review on a case-by-case basis because it’s not technically legal in the US. It may also not be technically illegal, but that doesn’t mean a corporation can’t sue you and be awarded millions in civil damages if they think you profited off the art in some way.

A quick google search will source you lawyers saying such.