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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. Sorry, but... by JustAnotherIdiot · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...Apple's been maintaining a false scarcity of their products for who knows how many years.
    I'm surprised they didn't already have this patented.

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  2. Re:And of course ... by foniksonik · · Score: 0, Troll

    Really? Gangsters? These are just a bunch of smart guys who happened to be the right age at the right time, in the right place. After that its just following the laws of the land and trying to make their investors happy (and their customers satisfied).

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