Liquid Audio Sues In Pitiful Attempt to Appear Relevant

Emily writes: "Another case of patent abuse similar to the PanIP nonsense previously reported in Slashdot. This time, it's Liquid Audio suing geotargeting company Infosplit over patent infringement. I read their patent, it's hilarious! Liquid Audio basically received a patent for saying that a domain ending by "co.uk" is in the UK. More seriously, these lawsuits represent a serious threat to innovation in this country."

Comments

Re:Can't You Just Post a Comment?

[night_flyer]

shut up chrisd ...

Re:I've said it before, and I'll say it again

[snake_dad]

Why do you keep winking at me? ;)

Re:Get real

[brsmith4]

They haven't cared about the people. In fact, even after Sept. 11th they didn't care about the people. They used it for a politcal agenda. 'Vote for us in 2004, we worked hard after 9-11 to defeat terrorists.' Not to mention throw away our rights, walk on our constitution and alienate our public. Democrats and republicans alike are the slime of the earth. You have your right wing, christian coalition, business banging, revenue generating, self serving machine running one half of the government and then you have your left wing, give all of our tax money to everyone who is not a citizen, expand the size of our already goliath bureauocracy, exploit the services, whine bitch and complain, sue sue sue, ACLU(another sue) lovers running the other half. Both are linked by one common thread: they are both owned by a couple individuals/corporations with a lot of money. We all know that the rich like to ride the wave of their congressional support. For how many years has enron gotten away with fucking with its accounting? Now look at how many people lost their jobs because of someone's greed. What did the government want to do about that? Our courageous, terrorist-fighting madman of a prez. wanted it forgotten real quick. HM, I wonder why? Only when a company that has no relation to him or his administration falls (worldcom) does he take action and look ridiculous in the process.

In short, our government, if placed in the right hands would work correctly. However, since power corrupts, we have consistently placed losers to rule us, losers who will take anything and everything from you, even the clothes off your back, if it makes them happier for at least one more moment. With the exception of maybe John McCain (who I don't consider to be a republican as he always disagrees with his own party), you have no one in power that cares about you. Just remember that.

Re:Encryption protection prior art?

[Jeremy Erwin]

Many years ago, I wanted to use a swiss ftp server to download something (Oberon, IIRC). My initial attempts to login with my email address were rebuffed with a statement that this server was intended for swiss residents. By appending .ch to my email address, however, I was able to secure entry.