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Valve wins legal battle against patent troll Rothschild and associated companies (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 167 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

"System and method for storing broadcast content in a cloud-based computing environment"

What a bullshit patent. Twitch and other streaming services have been doing this for longer than this patent have existed most likely.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 143 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Patent trolls are absolute scum of the earth.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm reminded of that one Silicon Valley episode

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Remind me?

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pied Piper was threatened with a lawsuit by a patent/IP troll. When Richard went to talk to him during his "everything can be solved by just talking it out" phase he learned the guy was also the owner of music copyright for an old song that he used to threaten musicians.

His solution was to find an older example of that song (using their software) and threaten the guy with losing his copyright on the song that was his main moneymaker.

So in this one case talking it out face to face did pay off. Unlike talking to Ed Chen

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, I remember now!

Yes, that show is notably fiction, though so firmly rooted in the reality of Silicon Valley that it was at times almost painful to watch while working and living there. Also everyone started calling me Gilfoyle.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

the rothschilds can stand as scum of the earth on their own, without patent trolling once.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 77 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, the fact such a nonspecific patent was granted in the first place shows pretty clearly there's something wrong with the system!

[–] Emi@ani.social 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

At that point you could just patent breathing.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 26 points 3 weeks ago

"Method and apparatus for insufflation of oxygen into a body by means of flexible permeable membrane"

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Such poetic justice, though, ain't it? I guess they must've thought Valve was easy, low hanging fruit? But of a mistake, if so. Just a little one, mind you!

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

I could see an argument that RealPlayer did that 30 years ago.