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Altnet Threatens P2P Companies Over File Hash Patents

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the knuth-cited dept.

devil_doll writes "I saw over on p2pnet that Altnet is trying to 'mug' a number of P2P companies with seemingly bogus patents. One of them is titled 'Data processing system using substantially unique identifiers to identify data items, whereby identical data items have the same identifiers,' and appears to be nothing more than a simple hash table."

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  1. As an attorney... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    for one of the aggrieved parties, let me just say that BitTorrent is nothing short of the Denial of Service attack. I hope they are taken down. When is /. going to learn that you can't flood sites, steal music, or copy DVDs without repercussion?

  2. US way of doing business by NoSuchGuy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's the way business is done in the US:

    No need for innovation - you can sue your competitors and/or customers for your profit.

    --
    Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
  3. Re:Proof of the overabundance of lawyers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    For dog's sake, that's ridiculous, you grammar jewish pig!