Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight (theregister.co.uk)

yoink! writes: According to an article in The Register, corporations big and small are coming under legal fire from CryptoPeak. The Company holds U.S. Patent 6,202,150, which describes "auto-escrowable and auto-certifiable cryptosystems" and has claimed that the Elliptic Curve Cryptography methods/implementations used as part of the HTTPS protocol violates their intellectual property. Naturally, reasonable people disagree.

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Re:Corporate death penalty

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First, a corporation must act reasonably in the best interest of the general public.
Second, a corporation must act reasonably in the best interest of their employees where it doesn't conflict with the first rule.
Third, a corporation must act reasonably in the best interest of their shareholders where that doesn't conflict with the first or second rule.

A corporation jacks up the price of a generic drug by 7,000,000%? Sued by the general public.

The only reason a corporation can do that is because of monopolistic laws created by government.

A corporation informs employees that they will have to train their H1B replacements? Sued by their employees.

For what? Lowering their costs?

A corporation pays its CEO an unreasonably large salary with no evidence that that results in better executive performance? Sued by their shareholders.

Paying CEOs unreasonably large salaries usually correlates with poor performance; that's because you have to pay a CEO a lot of money to run a poorly performing company.

I like it better than a corporate death penalty, because many corporations do have value and importance to the general public that would be at risk of being destroyed because of a single bad acting CEO. With this scheme, the courts would have a framework for redressing these issues.

Your scheme is imbecilic.