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MLB Gets A Patent On Making It More Difficult To Watch Your Favorite Baseball
Team Online
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| Limiting access by subscription levels has been around forever. Combining the
| two hardly seems new and innovative. This seems like it should fail based on
| general obviousness, as well as the new tests under the KSR ruling (on
| obviousness) and the Bilski ruling (on pure software patents). About the
| only "good" that comes of this is that perhaps it means other sports leagues
| won't use such an anti-fan policy.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090517/1347314913.shtml
Bilski Not So Bad for Software Patents After All
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/05/19/bilski-not-so-bad-for-software-patents-after-all/id=3582/
Related:
Why Hiro is not my hero
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| On the face of it, Hiro-Media's approach to distributing ad-supported video
| content without the usual DRM issues seems promising, but there are some
| major flaws.
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| Hiro's approach is to prevent fast forwarding or rewinding during ads.
| Furthermore, the ads are dynamically inserted along with pieces of the show
| that were omitted from the original file. Once the Hiro software has
| collected these items, the file will play locally for a few days, after which
| a new set of ads fetched from the server before it can be played again.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18456/1151/
Microsoft patents Tivo for commercial breaks
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| Microsoft has patented the idea of inserting fresh advertisements
| into old recordings on personal video recorders, to ensure you see
| today's ads even if you're watching a recording from last week.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7946&Itemid=1063
Next version of Microsoft Works will be free but ad-driven
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| With all the hype being gathered up by Microsoft Office 2007, there is a
| tendency to forget about Microsoft's other office suite known as Microsoft
| Works.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/07/30/microsoft-works-for-free
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
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml
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
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