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As soon as Microsoft or Real Video or some other big company with deep pockets took notice, that was the end for me. Sad. Copyrights were designed to protect s
by time_management 18y ago
As soon as Microsoft or Real Video or some other big company with deep pockets took notice, that was the end for me.
Sad. Copyrights were designed to protect small authors from the massive publishing houses, with whose distribution the small author could never compete. Patents were founded on the same principle. It's pretty upsetting that these are now being used by the large corporations to establish hegemony, whereas the "little guy" almost certainly doesn't have the money necessary to hold his own ground.
- Retric 18y agoI don't think patents should protect people when the solution is obvious. Take a DVR 20,000+ people probably thought up the idea of using HDD to store tv programs it was just a question of when a cheep HDD would become large enough. Push / Pull email to hand held devices is a stupid patent. What should be protected is novel solutions to problems. Take a product that's in production and make it better by changing it's shape slightly so you get more leverage and that's worthy of a patent.