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Bunnie Huang: Innovation Should Be Legal

posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 14 2018, @01:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the tilting-at-windmills dept.

canopic jug writes:

Famed hardware hacker Bunnie Huang announces his newest project and goes into detail about how trouble from the DMCA was the impetus. He comments that unchecked power to license freedom of expression should not be trusted to corporate interests. The project, NeTV2, is being crowdfunded.

I'd like to share a project I'm working on that could have an impact on your future freedoms in the digital age. It's an open video development board I call NeTV2.

It's related to a lawsuit I've filed with the help of the EFF against the US government to reform Section 1201 of the DMCA. Currently, Section 1201 imbues media cartels with nearly unchecked power to prevent us from innovating and expressing ourselves, thus restricting our right to free speech.

At Boing Boing : Innovation should be legal; that's why I'm launching NeTV2

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @05:39PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @05:39PM (#679661)

    That's true Freedom: Voluntary Association.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @06:17PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @06:17PM (#679692)

    Incorrect. True freedom is being able to do whatever, thus slavery is a result of "true freedom" and it just happens that the slaves were not able to prevent the masters from enslaving them. They are free to revolt and break free, and the masters are free to kill them.

    This "true freedom" idea is really just anarchy so you should drop the high minded idealism. GPL/Apache/BSD are all examples of GOOD freedom where people are able to create software and apply the license they prefer. That is voluntary association, and if someone says you can't make proprietary software out of their freely available software then tough nuggets. While you're working on your ideologies try imagining a world where capitalism isn't the end-all be-all where everyone needs to bow down to the almighty "business".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @07:24PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @07:24PM (#679729)

      So, your definition is bullshit.

      You've been hoist by your own petard; your argument is a straw man.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:21AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:21AM (#679839)

        Yes welcome to why you're ideology is so fundamentally flawed. Amazing that you think it implicates me. If only we were all saints who would never violate the well being of one another!

        At least we can get some amusement tossing virtual vegetables at you!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @02:25PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @02:25PM (#680046)

          What about "straw man" don't you get?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @07:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @07:46PM (#679737)

    oh, stfu! noone forces you to use gpl'd software. there are plenty of mac-using sellouts pushing Slaveware As A Service apps leeched from bsd licensed shit. you can join your fellow whores.

  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:06AM (1 child)

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:06AM (#679829) Journal

    Free association is alive and well with GPL. Nobody forces you to use it as part of your project.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @02:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @02:38PM (#680051)

      Both the GPL and Apache operate under free association. It's just that the GPL's set of free associations is smaller than that of Apache's.

      Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:

      The Apache License is permissive in that it does not require a derivative work of the software, or modifications to the original, to be distributed using the same license (unlike copyleft licenses – see comparison)[…] The Apache Software Foundation and the Free Software Foundation agree that the Apache License 2.0 is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL), meaning that code under GPL version 3 and Apache License 2.0 can be combined, as long as the resulting software is licensed under the GPL version 3.