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EFF Busts Illegitimate Subdomain Patent

Posted by kdawson on from the method-and-device-for-breathing-in-then-breathing-out dept.

eldavojohn writes "Unlike a lot of community support protection programs, the EFF's Patent Busting Project is starting to bear real fruit instead of just leveling the finger at offenders. The USPTO is revoking an illegitimate patent granted in 2004 that sounds like automatically assigning subdomains. Sites like Wordpress, LiveJournal, or basically anyone with generated subdomains have been doing this for quite some time. If you have some extra cash, now's the time to pony up a few bucks so the EFF can carry on as one of the few organizations genuinely protecting your interests."

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  1. The list of the shameless "inventors" is by slashdotmsiriv · · Score: 5, Informative

    Brian Shuster, Johnson Leong, Matthew Price, Brian Lam, Desmond Ford Johnson.

    So that their names show up in this /. post every time somebody googles them ...

  2. Re:The EFF isn't entirely protecting our rights by bughunter · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm giving up mod privileges to post this. But nobody has made this point, so I need to.

    The flaw in your argument is your failure to recognize that the spam "solutions" that the EFF have opposed were worse than the spam problem. Solutions that restrict rights online or which are so vague as to permit abuse in non-spam situations are more dangerous than a few hundred pen!s oil ads.

    The EFF are one of the few NPOs that I give to, because they actually are effective and coincide with my values. If they don't coincide with yours, fine. Don't give. I also advise that you don't trash talk them either, at least not here...

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    I can see the fnords!