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Amazon Patents 'Maintaining Scarcity' of Goods

Posted by Unknown on from the moldy-bits dept.

theodp writes "Back in Biblical times, creating abundance was considered innovative. That was then. Last Tuesday, GeekWire reports, the USPTO awarded Amazon.com a broad patent on reselling and lending 'used' digital goods for an invention that Amazon boasts can be used to 'maintain scarcity' of digital objects, including audio files, eBooks, movies, apps, and pretty much anything else."

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  1. For real? by Quakeulf · · Score: 3, Funny

    I... I don't even want to know anymore.

  2. Re:The corporations are our enemy by ph0rk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Terminator was far too optimistic in portraying our future as the War Against the Machines, a nice and clean them-versus-us scenario in which the machines would be non-human. The enemy would be easy to identify.

    Uh, yeah. Did you actually see Terminator?

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    semantics are everything!
  3. Re:Commons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    and was thus legally part of the estate in land owned by the lord of the manor,

    So, you prove his claim, while arguing that he is unqualified and that your quote somehow disproves his claim?