I seem to remember someone releasing a scanner for illegal files a while ago which turned out just to flag things randomly by file extension or something.
What then if myself and some particularly inventive friends invent a thingy together, and form a company that then gets a patent on the invention. If patent-selling is restricted to individuals, then we can't sell it to someone able to take it further. Don't you think that, whilst stopping large companies from messing with everyone, limiting patent selling to individuals would cause smaller businesses to lose out?
What if I invent something, patent it, but don't have the funds to develop it further? I could make my money by selling the patent to a firm that is able to put in extra resources, and hence be compensated for effort I put into inventing it. Surely that's the reason people are allowed to buy/sell patents.
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I seem to remember someone releasing a scanner for illegal files a while ago which turned out just to flag things randomly by file extension or something.
But the differnce is that you or I could sell a version of Wikipedia if we wanted to.
Maybe they could use this to ease the sifting process.
What then if myself and some particularly inventive friends invent a thingy together, and form a company that then gets a patent on the invention. If patent-selling is restricted to individuals, then we can't sell it to someone able to take it further. Don't you think that, whilst stopping large companies from messing with everyone, limiting patent selling to individuals would cause smaller businesses to lose out?
What if I invent something, patent it, but don't have the funds to develop it further? I could make my money by selling the patent to a firm that is able to put in extra resources, and hence be compensated for effort I put into inventing it. Surely that's the reason people are allowed to buy/sell patents.
They don't *have* to open it, but if they want their file format used by the govt, then they have to.
trade defecit != budget defecit
A peerage is a seat in the house of lords, not a knighthood.
But it'll give them a way to keep charging rent for their software when people stop wanting to upgrade, which is exactly what they want to do.
Why does google expanding make it evil? I don't see the problem with it.
Whilst Apple may be considering the DCMA, I doubt Real would have done this without first consulting their lawyers about it.
I think you've got that the wrong way round. The longer they wait to release it, the *more* bugs they'll have time to write into it.