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A Demonstration of How Copyright is Being Used in America

Some prisoners tried to get themselves out of jail by abusing copyright. They ended up in trouble of course, but one of the things they got in trouble for was extortion. It is hard to imagine how that might stick considering the prisoners are using the same system that “patent holders” are using on a [...]

Apple Being Sued for iPod

A Texas company is suing the top mp3 makers for infringing on their patent. What patent? Portable MPEG players of course. Sound absurd? It is, but that hasn’t stopped it from working in the past and it probably won’t prevent it from happening again in the future.
It wasn’t too long ago [...]