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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. Stop press - new lawsuit.. by adeyadey · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unfortunately further comments will cease, because I have served Slashdot with a writ for infringing my US software patent (#230754729835) - "Arranging letters on a web page to make words and sentences"..

    Negociations between me and Slashdot for back-payment of royalty fees ($1.20 per word)have commenced..

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