I also did something, I wrote to the MEP's in my area, outlining my position and asking their opinion. They need to know this is important.
My local government web site had a link to my MEP's.
http://www.thurrock.gov.uk/democracy/content.php?page=mps#c03
I would recommend you look at crash plan:
http://www.crashplan.com/
It works great for me, I use their hosted service, although you could use crash plan to backup to a friends computer as well as their hosted service.
Also if you start now it wont take you three weeks to backup your collection like it did mine (200gb)!
I also use TimeMachine for local backups, that has also worked great for me.
I used to use Mozy but switched when they changed their price plans.
I suppose the real question is not if they can be sued, because of course anyone can sue anyone, it's whether or not they would have a case to answer, specifically because software patents are not valid in the UK. I understand that there are some minor exceptions to this rule, however I don't believe this patent falls under any of them. This will be very interesting.
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Thanks, so much easier than my way :) Still it's done now... Let's hope they respond.
I also did something, I wrote to the MEP's in my area, outlining my position and asking their opinion. They need to know this is important. My local government web site had a link to my MEP's. http://www.thurrock.gov.uk/democracy/content.php?page=mps#c03
Your prior art references speakers corner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers'_Corner
Have you tried Lynx? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
I would recommend you look at crash plan: http://www.crashplan.com/ It works great for me, I use their hosted service, although you could use crash plan to backup to a friends computer as well as their hosted service. Also if you start now it wont take you three weeks to backup your collection like it did mine (200gb)! I also use TimeMachine for local backups, that has also worked great for me. I used to use Mozy but switched when they changed their price plans.
I suppose the real question is not if they can be sued, because of course anyone can sue anyone, it's whether or not they would have a case to answer, specifically because software patents are not valid in the UK. I understand that there are some minor exceptions to this rule, however I don't believe this patent falls under any of them. This will be very interesting.
Funny how this story follows the one about the UK governments commitment to provide 2mb broadband to the whole of the country.