Microsoft gets sued for Patnet violations regarding its DRM technology!

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  • High_Jumbllama
    Super MURCer
    • Dec 1999
    • 4522
    #1

    Microsoft gets sued for Patnet violations regarding its DRM technology!

    Found this on Slashdot and just had to make sure everyone saw it. Microsoft is getting sued for patent violations with its DRM technologies.
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    • Dr Mordrid
      Moderator
      • Apr 2001
      • 26592
      #2
      The only proper term I can think of is: HOLY SHIT!!

      M$ just got themselves into a major can of worms

      Dr. Mordrid
      Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 21 December 2002, 17:57.
      Dr. Mordrid
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        • RedRed
          Super MURCer
          • May 2000
          • 2423
          #3
          looks like a little plan by sony and Philips to bust microsoft wider than a wide thing.

          Those guys can REALLY play hard-ball.

          They may well do what those US states couldnt....

          RedRed
          Dont just swallow the blue pill.

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            • thop
              Super MURCer
              • Mar 2001
              • 2536
              #4
              Sony Corp. of America and Royal Philips Electronics get 3 cents for every CD manufactured, plus 3% of the price of every CD player sold.
              That's totally OT (but from the article), but all i can say is:
              no matrox, no matroxusers.

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                • Wombat
                  Super MURCer
                  • Aug 2000
                  • 9498
                  #5
                  Jeez, there's cans of me now?
                  Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                    • Technoid
                      Super MURCer
                      • Sep 1999
                      • 7645
                      #6
                      Go get them
                      If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

                      Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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                        • Goc
                          MURCer
                          • Sep 1999
                          • 852
                          #7
                          This is MF huge!
                          IANAL but it seems to me this is more dangerous to M$ than that antitrust lawsuit...
                          Me thinks Bill is sweating...
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                            • Wombat
                              Super MURCer
                              • Aug 2000
                              • 9498
                              #8
                              Nah, they're not sweating anything. MS has known about these guys for years, and even "leveraged" their work. MS has had plans on how to deal with this, or they wouldn't have proceeded.
                              Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                                • Goc
                                  MURCer
                                  • Sep 1999
                                  • 852
                                  #9
                                  True, but they probably counted on InterTrust being a small firm that they can hassle around courts like many before... Now that big guys like Sony & Philips came into the game, MS certainly isn't at ease...
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