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Posted 20 April 2012 - 03:35 PM

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 04:01 PM

How can we grant them a patent to do something that independents have done for 20 damn years?

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 04:24 PM

This is why:
http://www.newscient...-australia.html

Because they'll award a patent for ANYTHING, and leave it to the courts to prove/disprove its originality.

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 04:32 PM

Skimming over it briefly, it looks like they've decided to patent MAME and what every other emulator project over the last decades have done, so they can jerk people around in court, playing the role of intellectual property trolls.

Now they can use a full-time, salaried legal team to shake down everyone else who does not have one, for 'violating' their 'patent'.

The Intellectual Property laws need an overhaul, but I'd be terrified to see what the lobbyists got into that. These laws were supposed to foster innovation and protect inventors, but now they're used for just the opposite, and as a legal 'protection racket' to squeeze the success out of any project.

You don't have to invent a damned thing. All you have to do is patent a 'concept' that you have no idea how to accomplish. Now if anyone spends years of their lives tackling that problem, you can latch onto them like a leech.

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