[DoctorOetker]

So Bambu's argument hinges on "impersonation" claim of Jarczak's modified client using the same user agent string?

If a user compiles official BambuStudio from source, does BambuLabs then also claim their non-bit-identical client is also impersonating the "real" BambuStudio?

Or are they abusing user agents strings as authentication mechanism?

If they don't consider it abuse, but rather legitimate use of agent strings as authentication mechanism, then are they effectively openly arguing they left the user-agent-as-credential in the public repository? BambuLabs is going to claim in court that it publishes login credentials to its network in its open source BambuStudio, and then complaining that people actually use them?

If I bring my post-it with all my computer passwords to CCC and wave it in front of any camera I find, can I then sue the CCC and others filming, because they are spreading my credentials?

Or should I be laughed away in court?

[RachelF]

I think the weak precedent here is Apple vs Palm:

Palm devices pretended to be iPods so that users could use iTunes to copy music to them. Apple threatened legal action and Palm backed down.

[Tepix]

The ipods weren’t open source, however

[DoctorOetker]

and the designs being printed are most often the user's own, or else legitimately acquired through model repositories...

[kelnos]

If I were to leave a key to my house in public, it would still be breaking and entering if someone entered my house without my permission.

Not saying Bambu is in the right here, but your view of how the law works is a bit lacking.

[dns_snek]

You didn't leave a key somewhere, you distributed the key publicly and gave everyone permission to use it.

Now you're threatening someone for taking and posting a photo of that key.

[cassianoleal]

Not only that, but you also made it so anyone using the key must also make it publicly available to others.

[sznio]

Funniest thing is how this compares to web browsers impersonating each other in the user agent string. Should Mozilla sue everyone?

[altmanaltman]

I mean if you do enter a legal case, they cannot just laugh away and be like "oh DoctorOetker such a silly case". They will have to take it seriously and follow all legal procedures. I don't know why people think law is some commonsense topic when it's highly technical and domain-based.

[techjamie]

That's called a motion to dismiss and it does happen. Maybe it wouldn't in this particular case, but not every case gets the full 9 yards of examination if one side's argument is bad enough.

[DoctorOetker]

I'm not asking what the courts do, I'm asking what they should do?

[altmanaltman]

Asking what they should do is literally what they do. Law is not a commonsense topic where asking whaty they should do has any meaningful implications if you do not understanding the underlying theory and precendence which requires deep domain knowledge.

[DoctorOetker]

the concept of democracy is that everyone is entitled to opinions on what should or should not happen.

its a basic distinction between descriptive and prescriptive statements or questions.

[iamnothere]

While this is true, increasingly we no longer live in a democracy, but rather a bureaucratic technocracy.