Australian Firm Targets Apple and Google Cloud Music Services

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday July 6, 2011 @04:33AM from the can-i-patent-urls dept.

littlekorea writes "The online music services of Apple and Google are likely to be challenged by a Sydney-based company that has been granted three new patents around file hashing and deduplication. The patents are being managed by Kevin Bermeister, of Altnet/Kazaa fame, who believes that the technology behind P2P music services has been commercialized by the music industry without license." In semi-related patent troll news, Google is being sued over using interactive panoramic images in Streetview. Because QuickTime VR didn't exist years before the patent was filed.

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Sigh, how did I know this was a patent troll by bruce_the_moose · 2011-07-06 04:40 · Score: 4, Interesting

just by reading the title? I hoped "Australian Firm Targets Apple and Google" meant they were going to, oh, I don't know, produce a product and compete? But, no, targeting can only mean one thing any more: lawsuits.

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