I don't hear that level of intellectual discrimination from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns. "As far as I am concerned, the days of self-regulation should be over for the file-sharing industry." http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE56S4T420090729

I couldn't find anything particularly innovative or inventive in the patent description, so this patent doesn't make any sense to me at all. I have to wonder what exactly they have, or had, in mind with this. But it reminds me exactly what pushed me away from Windows several years ago, when they started getting so aggressive with their product activations that I actually had to worry if I might upgrade my hardware too fast for my OS license, or maybe be stuck in the middle of the night waiting for an over-the-phone permission from Microsoft so I can complete a re-installation. It just makes me appreciate freedom. Thank God (and many developers) for Linux and free software.