Dish hit with $469 million verdict over commercial-skipping technology

[erek]

IP infringement at it's finest.

"Salt Lake City-based ClearPlay's technology lets users filter out adult content like sex, violence and drug use from DVDs and streaming video. It sued Dish in 2014, alleging that AutoHop's technology for cutting commercials from DVR content violates its patents for a "method of filtering multimedia content without altering the underlying video."

Englewood, Colorado-based Dish said that AutoHop works differently from ClearPlay's patented technology. Dish also said the patents are invalid, arguing they are obvious based on earlier inventions or cover abstract ideas."

Source: https://www.reuters.com/legal/dish-...er-commercial-skipping-technology-2023-03-13/

 

[dogDAbone]

So what is nearly every single live streaming service using to filter out the ads of shows that were previously aired elsewhere ?

I know NEWLY created/original shows just don't have any ads to start with, but that's not what we're talking about here anyways...

 

[sc5mu93]

Wish DISH and sister company Echostar a fast and painful death. Charlie Ergan can eat a ….