What about prior art? Have not people been using auto e-mail forwarders for a long time? How can a company simply decide to claim an idea as its own if it is public domain?
This is somewhat disturbing, as are other patent stories I've read in the past.
It's too bad that "they" can't create a format that can be expanded somehow without having to manufacture new drives to read them.
Perhaps they could place info on how a drive should attempt to read a disc on a special track, and then create drives with the ability to change how it tries to read a disc based on the info in this track. For instance, the track may contain info on the size and wavelength of the laser that should be used.
Of course, that would be yet another disc and drive format, and even something like that would be probably be short lived anyway.
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This is somewhat disturbing, as are other patent stories I've read in the past.
Perhaps they could place info on how a drive should attempt to read a disc on a special track, and then create drives with the ability to change how it tries to read a disc based on the info in this track. For instance, the track may contain info on the size and wavelength of the laser that should be used.
Of course, that would be yet another disc and drive format, and even something like that would be probably be short lived anyway.
Arg!