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Re: [dvd-discuss] Patent anything
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- From: "D. C. Sessions" <dcs(at)lumbercartel.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 07:34:45 -0700
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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:48, Dean Sanchez wrote:
# If Netflix can get a patent on getting a monthly subscription fee, I should be able to get a patent on breathing. Everyone hold you breath until you pay up;)
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# http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030624/media_netflix_4.html
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# There is such a huge disconnect between what a "reasonable" person sees as appropriate and to what the IP industry is staking claim , is it any wonder that the average citizen is beginning to feel nothing but contempt for copyright and patent and ignore the law?
This is a *wonderful* test case. What netflix has patented
is a "subscription library." Subscription libraries have been
around longer than the United States; one of the first in
North America was founded by a gent named Benjamin
Franklin.
Tell me again about how something has to be new to
be patentable.
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