Hmm, I wonder what it would do to the Bitcoin price if it got out about how most mining is done with miners that violate a license.
There are currently about 7.9 billion people on planet earth, out of that massive number nobody cares about this except yourself, so the impact on price is as great/small as your own influence on the price of what now is a 1 trillion dollar market.
If you filed a lawsuit against Bitmain, I wonder how much $ you'd need to be a big enough pain in their ass to motivate them to actually do anything.
I believe only the owner of the copyright can do that, which I believe in this case is Jeff Garzik who wrote the Cpuminer which later Con Kolivas aka CK forked to Cgminer, neither Jeff Garzik nor CK seem to have an issue with how everyone is treating cgminer, they both simply don't care or/and know that there is no point going after a company in China or a few random individuals around the globe who don't provide the source code to their firmware.
The scale of the whole bitcoin mining industry is a drop in the ocean as far as the world is concerned, nobody is willing to waste their time on such subject, so in reality, nothing is going to happen/change, it's pretty sad, but it's what it is.
