The rise of copyright trolls

GPL is pretty clear on this:

"7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License."

So either you get a waiver for the legal requirements or stop distributing a GPL-ed product. As of now there are no laws preventing putting a tiny printed GPLv2 text with a product.

I have very few sympathies to companies that violate GPL and I absolutely welcome any attempts to bring compliance, even by trollish methods. I'd gladly contribute to a fund that will extend this trolling to all other companies that ignore GPL.

This is quite selfish - we spend time making sure our products are license-clean (either no GPL or GPL with source code offer) and I absolutely detest that many of our competitors can just wave away all the compliance issues.