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The worst part is the perversion of justice of the author being provably right yet unable to enforce his legally binding contracts as an individual against a well resourced company. Hopefully this sparks a copyleft movement of public freedom.


In the 1970s Dutch lawyers, in the hippie spirit of the time, realised that only the rich could afford legal advice. So they decided to start doing pro bono work for the poor.


If only courts would award legal fees to the winner…


Who could afford the upfront costs of fighting this stuff for years, even if you claw it back at the end?




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