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InterTrust Says It Owns DRM, Sues Microsoft

Posted by timothy on from the we-own-it-all dept.

Rinisari writes "Fortune.com has a story about Santa Clara-based InterTrust Technologies is claiming that their suite of 26 issued patents and 85 pending patents covers digital rights management technology currently in use by Microsoft. InterTrust is seeking an injunction barring distribution of about 85% of Microsoft's product line, including WindowsXP, OfficeXP, and Xbox. Slashdot previously mentioned InterTrust when Sony and Philips announced they were attempting to buy ( and still are attempting to buy) the DRM outfit."

10 of 213 comments (clear)

  1. How ironic by unterderbrucke · · Score: 5, Funny

    People claiming that someone copied DRM.

  2. Dammned if you Do, Dammned if you don't by veddermatic · · Score: 4, Funny

    IF M$ wins, Big Brother will end fair use as we know it in the computer world.

    If the other guys wins, M$ will buy them and then end fair use as we know it period.

    w00t?

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    Department of Homeland Security: Removing the rights real patriots fought and died for since 2001
  3. But then... by RedWolves2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    But then Microsoft countersues because it owns the rights on the letters DRM.

  4. Whew..... by nochops · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fortune.com has a story about Santa Clara-based InterTrust Technologies is claiming that their suite of 26 issued patents and 85 pending patents covers digital rights management technology currently in use by Microsoft.

    I knew there was bound to be a period in there somewhere.

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    "A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force." -William Blum
  5. Linux has DRM! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    chown -R microsoft * /
    chmod -R 000 * /

    Now microsoft owns your files, and not even they can read them!

  6. run for your lives! by carpe_noctem · · Score: 3, Funny

    This reminds me of one of those Godzilla vs. Mothra movies....both of them are big, ugly monsters, and a lot of crap is gonna get blown up before the bigger one finally wins. :/

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    "Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
  7. What we need.. by cmowire · · Score: 3, Funny

    What should have happened is for somebody like RMS to have thought up DRM first and generated patents on it and then refused to license them to anybody. ;)

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    Gentoo Sucks
  8. Congratulations! by Des+Herriott · · Score: 4, Funny

    For being the first Slashdot poster to understand the meaning of the word "ironic".

  9. Re:not sure who to cheer for... by flacco · · Score: 5, Funny
    Doesn't matter. The only winners here are the IP lawyers, and we all love IP lawyers, right?

    I'd love to be an IP lawyer. That way I could indulge my love of money and hatred for mankind in one easy step.

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    pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
  10. A little Christmas cheer... by Millennium · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh....

    Schadenfreude, schadenfreude
    Isn't it so sweet?
    Billy's such an asshole
    It's so great to see him beat, oh!

    Schadenfreude, schadenfreude
    Will this show to them
    Why our rights must not be
    Bitchslapped down by DRM?

    Sadly, it probably won't; M$ isn't known for being cowed by a taste of their own medicine. Nevertheless, maybe we'll actually see something good come out of this...