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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."

5 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?

    --
    Department of Homeland Security: Removing the rights real patriots fought and died for since 2001
  3. 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!

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

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

  5. 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.

    --
    pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.