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Comment Re:Depends on the bechmark (Score 2, Insightful) 182

While projects like this might hit their modest targets initially, they're totally doomed in the long term.

If 1% of users can get around it with highly technical trickery, it's not going to be long before one of those 1% packages the workaround up into a nice one-click piece of software that everyone can use. Just look at CSS. It only took one DVD-Jon to figure it out and now CSS is effectively useless.

That's why I think lots of people argue that it's either 100% or don't-bother.

Patents

Submission + - Patents For Sale Online Marketplace

An anonymous reader writes: What's New on the Legal Web
By Robert J. Ambrogi
Law Technology News
June 18, 2007
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleL T.jsp?id=1181898350208&rss=newswire

Patents marketplace. A new Web site, LegalForce,( http://www.legalforce.com/) offers an online "marketplace" for buying, selling and licensing patents. Through July, listing patents for sale costs nothing. Interested buyers can view listings and post bids, which are nonbinding and serve as invitations to negotiate. The site also provides a networking forum for inventors, attorneys and IP professionals, where they can participate in topical forums, post videos (illustrating their inventions, for example), post classified ads and list events.

According to the Web site, LegalForce also offers IP legal services, including patent preparation and prosecution, "through a network of U.S. patent attorneys using LegalForce intellectual property support services in India." According to a white paper, this means that much of the patent work is outsourced through U.S. patent attorneys to patent engineers in India.
Businesses

Submission + - NBC: "Piracy more serious than burglary and fr

An anonymous reader writes: ArsTechnica is reporting how detached and manipulative the discussion about copyright is becoming: 'NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton suggests that society wastes entirely too much money policing crimes like burglary, fraud, and bank-robbing, when it should be doing something about piracy instead. "Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned," Cotton said. "If you add up all the various kinds of property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it, it costs the country $16 billion a year. But intellectual property crime runs to hundreds of billions [of dollars] a year." '

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