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Google Patents Using iPhones To Kill 'Free Bird'
theodp writes "At Chicago's Billy Goat Tavern, construction workers found physical threats an effective way to discourage smart-ass Whitney Young High School students from playing annoying jukebox songs over and over again. But with Google's newly-patented technology for the Collaborative Rejection of Media for Physical Establishments, you no longer need to resort to violence to prevent Elton John Songs from being played on jukeboxes in bars. Its invention, boasts Google, 'enables customers of an establishment to collaboratively reject a media file that is currently playing and/or pending to be played within that establishment by entering data into a personal wireless portable computing device on their person, for example a cellular telephone.' But don't get your hopes up too high, kids. Much like Google's dual-tier stock plan, the patent calls for 'customer status levels including a premium status and a standard status,' so a premium customer will be able to veto attempts by lowly standard customers to kill his requests to play MC Hammer's 'Can't Touch This'. The patent comes from a quirky Outland Research IP portfolio acquired by Google; its inventor is Louis B. Rosenberg, a Stanford PhD and professional film maker."
Google is our new patent abusing company. I am actually that they have finally came out and just do it themselves. Previously they only did this via proxy companies.
However, this just clearly shows change in their management, style and behavior. Not only do they abuse everyones privacy, but they also try to shutdown competitors with obvious patents. But hey, feel free to support this abusive company if you feel so!
I would be happy about the premium service, to keep you people from cancelling my music.
And thanks to Google's greed, we can't have this. They are the worst company on planet.
There was this lonely guy that came in everyday of the week. My first day there, the owner pointed at him and said, "This is Joe, you help Joe before any other customers, you charge Joe $1.25 for each of his beers no matter what size or kind, tap or bottle." Apparently for 30 some years that guy came in, drank five beers through the course of the entire evening and left. People like that, I think you'd let them have your way with your jukebox and maybe you, the owner would be above everyone else in case things got out of hand.
Actually, this is completely opposite of what Google wants to do. They charge you more if you use them more. Google doesn't care about long term customers - they care about quick and easy money.
Being a good customer means nothing at all to shithead Google.