On: Copyright Industry Madness Takes 6 Years To Catch Up With The Worst Satire Of It

[blacktulip]

So if M$ patented this technology, does it mean that other companies can not use this kind of shit to limit their users? If so this would be a good thing.

[Falkvinge → blacktulip]

The odd thing here is that the satire description predates the patent monopoly by six years, and may count as prior art.

[Bud → Falkvinge]

Please let this happen, so that we may all come to believe more fervently in the goddess of karma.

[anothermachine → Falkvinge]

That's ridiculous. Saying "wouldn't it be cool" isn't prior art. Describing a working system is.

[michaelfeathers → anothermachine]

Maybe the law has changed but I heard that a patent for a waterbed was once refused because Robert Heinlein had described one in a novel.

[zalzane → blacktulip]

of course not, microsoft would just licence the patent to other parties