Microsoft's Consent-or-Die Patent
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| On Tuesday, the USPTO granted Microsoft a patent for privacy policy change
| notification, which describes how to threaten users with the loss of their
| accounts and access to web sites and services should they refuse to consent
| to changes in a privacy policy.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1228241&from=rss
Mentioned yesterday:
Microsoft patents watermark technology that may lock down DRM-free music
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| Microsoft has won a patent for a digital-watermarking technology that is
| inaudibly embedded in the audio signal and cannot be removed
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/09/11/Microsoft-patents-watermark-that-may-protect-DRM-free-music_1.html?source=rss&url=www.infoworld.com%2Farticle%2F07%2F09%2F11%2FMicrosoft-patents-watermark-that-may-protect-DRM-free-music_1.html
Microsoft patents new digital rights management protection
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19280
Also today:
NTP Brings More Suits
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| NTP Inc. sued Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. for
| infringing on its patents related to mobile email services, a follow-up to
| its high-profile litigation with BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. -
| Amol Sharma, WSJ.com
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118953894926724093.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Related:
Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
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