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Monday, May 16, 20051116258900
Boydian Netwar Attack Patented By Macrovision
"Macrovision Applies for P2P Interdiction Patents," by Hemos, Slashdot, 16 May 2005, http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/16/1153248&from=rss.
Are you an insurgency or established government? Do you wish to use Colonel John Boyd's theory of netwar to affect regime change? Specifically, do you wish to apply the PISRR approach to gain or maintain power?
Sorry, Macrovision beat you to the punch
From Macrovision, the folks whom recently mandated "Thou shalt delete content promptly from thy Tivo" come the following 2 USPTO patent applications for Peer to Peer interdiction methods: "Interdiction of unauthorized copying in a decentralized network" and "System and methods for communicating over the internet with geographically distributed devices of a decentralized network using transparent asymetric return paths." These patent applications describe (in pain staking detail) how Macrovision interdicts on Peer to Peer networks to prevent illegal copyrighted file sharing from many locations across the globe and avoid ban lists as well.
The United States Patent Office allows you to patent theories. I'll review the theories after teaching today, but this is exasperating.
Imagine trying to be a physicist if the "strong nuclear force" or the "Pythagorean theorem" were under patent.
Multiply my frustration by ten-thousand, and you have the agitation of the entire software development community.
I hope these idiotic patents are lawyered to death.
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Try submitting prior art
Posted by: TM Lutas | Monday, May 16, 2005
I'd imagine the USMC has the best written documentation of prior invention and use.
Posted by: Dan | Monday, May 16, 2005