Patents violating my Free Speech??

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  • FightThisPatent
    Confirmed User
    • Aug 2003
    • 4090
    #1

    Patents violating my Free Speech??

    Here's a topic to chat about:


    I can type a message like this one, and it's free speech.

    I can get on a radio program and what i say is covered as free speech.

    I can get on TV and talk about issues, and it is covered as free speech.

    I can record my message and burn it on a CD, and it is covered as free speech.

    But, if digitize my message to put on a website, I am violating someone's patented claim?!?! Doesn't this prevent my free speech?

    I already paid for software and hardware that enables the recording of my message.

    Why do I need to pay some company a patent licensing fee just to be able to have audio on my website???

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    • twistyneck
      So Fucking Banned
      • Jan 2002
      • 4660
      #2
      Because all your free speech are belong to Acacia, that's why.

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        • FightThisPatent
          Confirmed User
          • Aug 2003
          • 4090
          #3
          Originally posted by twistyneck
          Because all your free speech are belong to Acacia, that's why.

          hehehehhe

          nice

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            • SMG
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              • Aug 2003
              • 1798
              #4
              SightSound.com holds atleast 2 patents and are currently suing CDNow/BMG. Their patents cover the sale of digital audio/video files over the internet.
              That's worse than activebuddy's patent on chat bots!
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                • FightThisPatent
                  Confirmed User
                  • Aug 2003
                  • 4090
                  #5
                  Originally posted by SMG


                  That's worse than activebuddy's patent on chat bots!

                  I haven't looked into those issues, but claiming downloading of audio/video is so much broader and more impact in scope than a chat bot.

                  i am sure some prior art could be dug up if you really looked. i was using some Visual Basic code that i found for making an AIM bot.. just about the time when activebuddy.com came online.. i wouldn't be prior art, but whoever made the base code could be , plus other coders could say they did it first (if publicized).

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