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Jooki – Taking Control of a Forgotten Device

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> But that dream turned into frustration when the company behind Jooki went bankrupt, leaving countless devices bricked and families frustrated.

It’s situations like this that make me believe that software should only qualify for copyright protection if its source code is published. We do this with patents precisely so that inventions don’t disappear when their creators do. Why don’t we do this with software too?

Unfortunately, there are certain major manufacturing countries which don't respect copyright law, and constantly poach everything from startups to kickstarters. :/

Do they respect patents any more than copyright?

I think copyright is counterproductive and destroys innovation more than copycats. Companies will evergreen patents eternally and then sit on it forever and either die out or become litigious trying to protect their patent. Just look at Disney with Mickey mouse, Amazon bought up the best text to speech system known to man and they literally don't use it at all, or look at the medical industry... They spend billions on slightly tweaking delivery methods to keep patents alive for decades. It's grotesque. Or the nemesis system in gaming.

Those countries are not going to abide anyways (and I honestly don't care because this system is so messed up anyways, 5 years should be more than enough time to make your money) but instead we get rot.

A couple of possibilities:

- copyright isn't patents, and copyright doesn't work this way for other works

- why would this help? Companies could just not copyright the server code, and not release it

This design appears to be intended for over-the-air (OTA) updates but, if exploited by a malicious actor, could enable remote code execution (RCE).

RCE is what every automatic update functionality essentially is.

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