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BetaNet Sues Everyone For Remote SW Activation
eldavojohn writes "Not to be out patent trolled by Eolas, a mystery company named 'BetaNet, LLC' is suing: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple, Inc., Arial Software, LLC, Autodesk, Inc.,, CARBONITE, INC., Corel Corp., Eastman Kodak Co., International Business Machines Corp., Intuit, Inc., Microsoft Corp., McAfee, Inc., Oracle Corp., Rockwell Automation, Inc., Rosetta Stone, Inc., SAP America, Inc., Siemens Corp. and Sony Creative Software, Inc. for infringement of their patent entitled Secure system for activating personal computer software at remote locations. And of course, this was filed in our favoritest of favorite places: Marshall, TX (Texas Eastern District Court)."
UUCP is prior art.
UUCP (unix to unix copy protocol ) has been doing this since at least the 1980's.
Admittedly its usually used to transfer files but uucp can still log in to a shell and remotely activate software.
( you usually have a script prepared to do this for you.)
>Left wing loves big business
Right, like all the hippies supporting Exxon and the Seattle WTO protesters kissing executives? Or all the liberals who dont want socialized medicine?
>The right wing likes all business, both big and small.
Haha, now tell me another. Corporatism is almost exclusively a right-wing ideology. Support of IP laws is a conservative philosophy. IP reform is a liberal philosophy. If I have to explain this then your bias is just too far gone.