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Cloudflare Pays First $7,500 Bounties In War Against Patent Troll (cloudflare.com)
Cloudflare declared war on a group of lawyers that files patent lawsuits against tech firms, by offering bounties for the discovery of patent-invalidating "prior art." Now an anonymous reader writes:
On Thursday, Cloudflare announced it has paid out the first $7,500 to people who discovered documents that could help invalidate Blackbird's patents. The money is part of a $100,000 war chest the company announced this spring... The company said it is ready to launch individual challenges to specific Blackbird patents. The company believes it has enough examples of prior art on US Patent 7,797,448, "GPS-internet Linkage" and US Patent 6,453,335 (the one asserted against Cloudflare) to lodge a challenge.
"We have received more than 230 submissions so far," Cloudflare reports, "and have only just begun to scratch the surface."
"We have received more than 230 submissions so far," Cloudflare reports, "and have only just begun to scratch the surface."
I hate these assholes with a passion. I'm living in China. So, once in awhile I get to a website that's using CloudFlare garbage and it wants me to enter some idiotic CAPTCHA bullshit that doesn't work because it's hosted by Google. Stupid ass lazy motherfuckers! I've you're going to be a gay faggot and use CAPTCHA, then host the God damn script yourself on your own servers. Don't pass the buck like a cocksucking nigga.