Isn't Apache Cocoon sufficient prior art to have this patent voided? They sure sound the same to me with Cocoon Sitemaps and stuff.
Software patents suck. Trade Secret law is sufficient protection for software ideas, since most people don't have time to disassemble the source code of others anyway.
There is a premise of US law called "selective enforcement" which basically comes down to the fact that you can't arrest one person doing something and not arrest another person for breaking the same law at the same time.
In all seriousness, could Sony *not* suing marker companies be used against them in a case where someone was being sued for writing tools to disable the copy protection with software? It's not like Sony could say that they didn't know about this "tool" (felt-tip pens) being used to thwart DMCA, so if they don't sue marker companies, they are guilty of selective enforcement.
It's too bad that the system has to be used against itself to kill bad laws such as DMCA.
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Isn't Apache Cocoon sufficient prior art to have this patent voided? They sure sound the same to me with Cocoon Sitemaps and stuff.
Software patents suck. Trade Secret law is sufficient protection for software ideas, since most people don't have time to disassemble the source code of others anyway.
There is a premise of US law called "selective enforcement" which basically comes down to the fact that you can't arrest one person doing something and not arrest another person for breaking the same law at the same time.
In all seriousness, could Sony *not* suing marker companies be used against them in a case where someone was being sued for writing tools to disable the copy protection with software? It's not like Sony could say that they didn't know about this "tool" (felt-tip pens) being used to thwart DMCA, so if they don't sue marker companies, they are guilty of selective enforcement.
It's too bad that the system has to be used against itself to kill bad laws such as DMCA.