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Flooding File Sharing Networks With Bogus Files: Patented







Flooding File Sharing Networks With
Bogus Files: Patented

Flooding File Sharing Networks With
Bogus Files: Patented
05/05/2004 05:10 PM

Well, here's a nice convergence story covering two topics we discuss on a regular basis: file sharing and ridiculous patents. A computer science professor has now received a patent on the process of flooding a file sharing network with bogus files to annoy people trying to download files. How is this not obvious? It didn't take a professor and a doctoral student to come up with this idea. Plenty of folks in the industry just went ahead and did it themselves. The professor also makes the same tired old mistake of saying that file sharing is the same thing as stealing a CD out of a store - something that even the Supreme Court has said is not true. Copyright infringement is definitely illegal, but it's not the same thing as stealing a physical object. Of course, some may say that this will make it more expensive for others to flood such P2P networks with fake files (and therefore a good thing), but relying on a bad patent isn't the way to go. I wonder if this patent covers flooding the patent office with bogus patents as well?




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Open Text Potential
Open-Ended

ActiveWin.com:
Longhorn 4074
available on MSDN

"A Kerry Landslide?"
by Chuck Todd

Nailed!
zoomies
Microsoft speaks no
evil at confab

Steer IT right
Editor's note
Wi-Fi + 3G = big
advantage?

Hotspots make the
cell connection

Hooked up in the sky
Sasser: on a
computer near YOU

Tech investment firm
Westaim turns around
Q1 loss in 2003 to
earn $1 million

Software firm Open
Text Q3 profit falls
to $3.3M US on
restructuring charge

Everything you never
wanted to know about
the UK ID card

Microsoft: Full
Steam Ahead for
Palladium

Cisco's Switch Turns
on the Wireless

Crouching 'Tiger',
Hidden Apple

Microsoft: Full
Steam Ahead for
NGSCB

Microsoft Conference
in Seattle Looks to
Next Operating
System

WTC Rebuilding Faces
Financial Challenge,
Developer Says
(Reuters)

IronPort, Microsoft
team on antispam
effort for Hotmail,
MSN users

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