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PTO Rejects Instant Live Patent
Jivecat writes "Instant Live, a service of the concert promotion company Live Nation, makes recordings of live concerts that are rapidly burned onto CDs to be sold to the audience before they leave the venue. It's a nice service for fans, but Live Nation holds the patent for a technology that places markers between songs so they can be written as separate tracks rather than one big track — in effect giving them a monopoly on in-concert recordings. Now, thanks to the efforts of the EFF and a patent attorney, who found prior work of similar technology, the U.S. Patent Office has revoked Live Nation's patent. This is good news for those who consider Live Nation to be the Evil Empire when it comes to concert promotion."
Allah has made all the laws already. There are no other laws, besides the laws of Allah. The few things that Allah has forbidden, you may not do. Otherwise, you are free to do as you please. These so-called patents do not stem from the will of Allah. They just try to favour one group of persons over another as to enslave them some more. These so-called patents therefore violate the will of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, the Most Equitable, who has endowed us with the complete freedom to do anything we wish, unless He not has explicitly forbidden it. The Holy War has now become inevitable, and the Almighty Allah expects every man to do his duty. Allah Akbar!