Netflix Suing Blockbuster for Patent Infringement

grouchomarxist writes "Netflix is suing Blockbuster for Patent Infringement. From the article: 'Netflix holds two U.S. patents for its business methodology, which calls for subscribers to pay a monthly fee to select and rent DVDs from the company's Web site and to maintain a list of titles telling Netflix in which order to ship the films, according to the patents, which were included as exhibits in the lawsuit. The first patent, granted in 2003, covers the method by which Netflix customers select and receive a certain number of movies at a time, and return them for more titles. The second patent, issued on Tuesday, "covers a method for subscription-based online rental that allows subscribers to keep the DVDs they rent for as long as they wish without incurring any late fees, to obtain new DVDs without incurring additional charges and to prioritize and reprioritize their own personal dynamic queue -- of DVDs to be rented," the lawsuit said.'"

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oh please

[Ender Ryan]

We all know what Netflix's business model is. We all know what Blockbuster started doing. We all know that Netflix is sueing Blockbuster for patent infringement. That's more than enough to call bullshit on the current patent regime.

Some asshole like you chimes in every discussion saying the same thing. They always get modded up, despite adding nothing real to the discussion. The facts remain. The facts being: ridiculous lawsuits, ridiculous constraints on freedom caused by the PTO.

Re:Broken beyond repair

[maladr0it]

In Soviet Russia, system patents you!