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LifestreamHere comes patent no. 7,000,180 [USPTO] or “Methods, Systems, And Processes For The Design And Creation Of Rich-Media Applications Via The Internet.” The git and former Macromedia employee who did it will most likely “sell the patent rather than enforce it himself.” Obvious buyers include gargantuan corporate entities who DO have the ability to enforce [...]
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Boing Boing …
EFF’s just posted its Day 2 notes from the meeting, and they’re fascinating. Check out all these developing nations coming to accord on how to protect their interests, and then the US and its states like Mexico (which follows the US’s lead all the time at WIPO) just poo-pooing the whole thing as [...]
Also once said that “640 K ought to be enough for anybody” .. even if that is disputed. Most likely, in 10 years, immaterial law will be revised. Or as Ars Technica points out …
Ars Technica - Gates is enthusiastic about the prospect of local Asian competition tightening up IP protection, but he should be [...]
Here we go again. Details are still sketchy though.
Slyck - At approximately 10 AM, local police in a wide spread coordinated effort raided over 300 homes and offices associated with top warez providers. The raids took place in Germany, Austria, Holland, Poland and the Czech Republic. According to GVU (translated to German Federation Against Copyright [...]
McGreevy!
EETimes - The European Union Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Charlie McGreevy, launched an initiative on Monday (Jan. 16) to establish a consistent European patent system, a move which would re-open the debate on the desirability of software patents.
As a part of his inititative, the commissioner launched a public consultation on how future [...]
Tired of being deemed a criminal and a terrorist by the system for sharing a few measly files at no financial gain or loss to anyone? Tired of seeing the developing world starve because the developed syndicate refuses to share its intellectual property? Tired of corporations engaging in the racketeering of the developing world, stealing [...]
And Scientology lost. Well boohoo. A big win for freedom of expression, opponents of frivolous copyrights and the Church of Scientology. Worthwhile causes to which I think we can all subscribe.
P2PNet - Writer Karin Spaink published the account on her website, hosted by XS4ALL, leading to a copyright infringement claim by Scientology in 1995. While [...]
Seems some people are taking their holiday seriously. Corporations using the US government to do their bidding, under the pretence of “American intellectual property.” As if it belonged to ALL Americans and as if infringement meant destroying everything American. I only wish we could rid ourselves of them that easily.
The Inquirer - RIAA asks US [...]
Slashdot got on the Slyck story but the best exchange can be found in the /. commentary:
ndansmith:
Winners: People who enjoy shared music and movies for free.
Losers: **AAs, whose obsolete business model is faltering
Biggest Losers: The poor pre-teens and grandparents dragged into court by the **AAs.
Doppler00:
Let’s correct this shall we:
Winners: People who don’t want to pay [...]
Remember the slew of games, Starforce 3 and Securom 7 protected, that were never given a proper crack (no-cd/dvd) and instead released as clone CD or DVD images? I guess many had all but given up on the scene. But when all hope seemed lost, an old champion appeared. RELOADED has been busy during the [...]
