Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

• wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It may or may not be illegal, they’re just throwing their weight around under the suggestion that it’s illegal. Knowing well that a single dev working on a plugin in their freetime isn’t likely to want to invest in legal proceedings.

  Which is even more reason to do the above, to stick it to them.

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  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Streisand Effect this bitch.

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  • praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yeah. just because they say so doesn’t mean that it’s actually illegal. they all always like to throw those legal threats anywhere they see fit.

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• mrbubblesort@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why would it be illegal? A cease and desist is just a fancy letter saying do what we want or else we'll go crying to a judge. If the original dev hasn't done anything wrong (I'm not familiar with the project but I'd still say that's highly likely to be the case) then there's nothing to worry about. So make all the clones you want, and watch a dumbass company Streisand itself

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  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes i know, it is why I am telling you NOT to do it. Nope. Don’t do it. At all.

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I were the dev, I’d want to either comply or get a lawyer, and getting a lawyer is expensive.

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t seen any notice, sounds legal to me.

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It wouldn’t be illegal if you hosted it in a country where there is no law against such a thing, and/or Haier does not have any presence which would grant them legal standing. Is anyone running a server farm in Sealand yet?

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