[Macha]

Is this not like the look and feel lawsuits over user interface from the initial fights over WIMP interfaces and later about slide to unlock, black rectangles and multitouch? Weren't they ultimately found not to be protectable?

[dbspin]

Doesn't matter if the developers can't afford to fight it.

[actually_a_dog]

s/developers/people/ here and you've hit on the main fraud of most Western legal systems. Essentially no private individual can stand up to a corporation that wants to bring the full weight of millions of dollars against them in the form of legal resources. Even borderline ethical tactics like burying the opposition in paperwork are far more effective when the other side is literally 1 guy.

We need some kind of real, actual tort reform here that does allow individuals to take on corporations. Corporations won't like that, of course, but this is a "too damn bad" type scenario in my mind. The big, practical question in my mind is "How do you do something like this without running up against Citizens United?". I think we may have capitalism'ed ourselves into a corner here.

[dsfyu404ed]

>Essentially no private individual can stand up to a corporation that wants to bring the full weight of millions of dollars against them in the form of legal resources. Even borderline ethical tactics like burying the opposition in paperwork are far more effective when the other side is literally 1 guy.

So long as the state also makes frequent use of this disparity the loophole will remain open. The state would rather let corporations run over individuals then give up the power to do so themselves.

[JKCalhoun]

With this global, free advertising, perhaps they can.