Brilliant! Oh, except for the part where you don't actually patent ideas, but inventions. Big difference.

Man, people on /. used to know those kinds of things. Now we mod up those who don't.

Actually, I'll bet if the Huckabee staffers were accused of d/l'ing copyrighted music on BitTorrent, and the people suing were the RIAA instead of some journalists, the judges ruling would have been different!