[Fsfe-ie] Videoshop Mark 2

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Fri Dec 5 23:45:38 CET 2003


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John Evans writes:
>Hi
>
>A hiberno-english image (of an original danish picture
>http://www.it-pol.dk/sager/swpat/videoshop) of what you would have to pay
>for in the new software patented www can be seen at:
>
>http://www.e-xamit.ie/swpat/video.htm

whoa -- I post a link to that on my weblog and now it's all over
the place! ;)

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 Date:    Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:33:04 +0000
 From:    "Boing Boing Blog" <rssfeeds at jmason.org>
 To:      jm at jmason.org
 Subject: eCommerce is 0wned by bogus patents

 URL: http://boingboing.net/2003_12_01_archive.html#107066153276770637
 Date: 2003-12-05T21:58:52Z

Want to get a sense of just how screwed up the patent system is?
Check out this mockup of a simple e-commerce page, which is annotated
with the _twenty_ patents it violates.

    * 24-kids-scannÃn.ie: Ã domain name. National characters in
    domain names: EP1159820
    * [Action] [Kids] [Drama] [Adventure]: (tabbed pallettes)
    EP689133
    * Picture link - pop-up window: EP0537100
    * Watch - Displaying video through the web: EP0933892
    * Download film - Displaying video through the web (same as
    above):
    EP0933892
    * mpeg4-format - Widely used video format for video download:
    More than 40 patents (herunder DK638218)

Link[1] (_Thanks, Yoz[2]!_)

[1] http://www.e-xamit.ie/swpat/video.htm
[2] http://cheerleader.yoz.com/

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