Apple Gives In to Absurd Patent Claims

gottabeme writes: Well, here's one where you wish the big guy had squashed the little guy. Apple settled with a small Oregon company that claimed patents on simple aspects of iTunes, such as sorting and searching tracks, copying tracks to media players, and just plain choosing a track to play. If only they had stood up to him and helped to rid us of such absurd patents. But Apple has a few of those it likes to enforce too, doesn't it?