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Google Patents Country-Specific Content Blocking
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| theodp writes "Today Google was awarded US
| Patent No. 7,664,751 for its invention of
| Variable User Interface Based on Document
| Access Privileges, which the search giant
| explains can be used to restrict what
| Internet content people can see 'based on
| geographical location information of the
| user and based on access rights possessed
| for the document.' From the patent: 'For
| example, readers from the United States may
| be given "partial" access to the document
| while readers in Canada may be given "full"
| access to the document. This may be because
| the content provider has been granted full
| rights in the document from the publisher
| for Canadian readers but has not been
| granted rights in the United States, so the
| content provider may choose to only enable
| fair use display for readers in the United
| States.' Oh well, at least Google is 'no
| longer willing to continue censoring
| [their] results on Google.cn.'"
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/16/1311236/Google-Patents-Country-Specific-Content-Blocking
Calling a troll a troll
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| There is increasing recognition in the FOSS
| ecosystem that troll lawsuits are a serious
| problem for open source. This is an
| unfortunate but real indicator of the
| remarkable success of open source. As the
| profits and profiles of open source
| products have risen, even trolls have taken
| note. So much for the good news. The bad
| news is that trolls view open source like a
| Somali pirate views a container ship â that
| is, purely as a target. Troll lawsuits are
| at best a tax on collaborative innovation
| and at worst, for a particular target, an
| existential threat.
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http://opensource.com/law/10/2/calling-troll-troll
Recent:
Google seeks to patent new Web app tech
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| Google has filed at least four patent
| applications for technology it's building
| into its Chrome browser to try to make the
| Web a more powerful foundation for
| applications.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000049-264.html
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