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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."

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  1. Shouldn't they be able to just by sulli · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    remotely disable it? What kind of DRM engineers are they if they can't?

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  2. Re:About freakin' time - Homer! by saskboy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is your ID in reference to CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet of the Simpsons?

    Bill Gates could settle this dispute by simply "buying them out".

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  3. Is anyone else scared by Rogerborg · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    That they claim one hundred and eleven patents on DRM? Dear god, how can they have thought of that many different ways to say "All your code base belong to us"?

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