On 04/13/2017 10:55 AM, grarpamp wrote:
Who said anything about state authorization? As everyone has said, the only way for your "not-for-profit venture" (registered corp or not) to break the law is for it to be a state authorized criminal itself. Otherwise it must operate anonymously, for which
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote: there is zero chance such anons will trend "not-for-profit" when there's clearly profit to be made.
If the device's creator in incommunicado that means avenues of legal redress are gone. If their device is defective... doesn't perform as advertised or violates the law (your right to privacy), you aren't 'breaking the law' by modifying the device because they've voided their own contract with the consumer. Fly-by-nights have no patent (copyright/etc) protection. SOMEONE has to own up to 'proprietorship', and if 'owning up' means they get sued by a million people, or go to prison, or get lynched, they are NOT going to claim any rights. Rr