Macrovision Applies for P2P Interdiction Patents

Posted by Hemos on Monday May 16, 2005 @02:02AM from the of-course-they-did dept.

schmecky05 writes "From Macrovision, the folks whom recently mandated "Thou shalt delete content promptly from thy Tivo" come the following 2 USPTO patent applications for Peer to Peer interdiction methods: "Interdiction of unauthorized copying in a decentralized network" and "System and methods for communicating over the internet with geographically distributed devices of a decentralized network using transparent asymetric return paths." These patent applications describe (in pain staking detail) how Macrovision interdicts on Peer to Peer networks to prevent illegal copyrighted file sharing from many locations across the globe and avoid ban lists as well."

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FP!! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-16 02:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:eh0d rubbed his wang on my face... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-16 02:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

WTF???

Slow day.

Geez... it's nice of Steve and John to lay it all out there.
Pile on the useless IP traffic!