Hulu Sued for Patent Infringement

CommanderFrank

CommanderFrank

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In the lawsuit of the week, Hulu has been sued by Rovi Corporation over patent infringements. The three patents in question have to do with search products and program guide technology. The two corporations have been in talks since 2008 over the infringement issues, but Hulu chose not to enter into licensing agreements with Rovi.

In any case, Hulu isn’t the only online media company that Rovi has taken to court recently. In January it sued Amazon and its IMDb property over five program guide patents.
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It's always some company I've never heard of..
 
Just a reminder of what a sue happy nation the US is. I think George Harrison's clued in and saw the writing on the wall in 1973 when he wrote the song Sue You Sue Blues.
 
jandar said:
They used to be called Macrovision.
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Ah yes the company that did quite a bit of DRMing and mild forms of root kiting, eventually getting so much flack they had to drop their name and merge with the parent company Rovi.
 
We need a president that reforms and say software can't be patented.

I can see these things happen quite a bit less if it were to happen.
 
The only thing these companies are doing is motivating me to read more books. :D Sorry, but very little is worth watching let alone paying for.
 
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