http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/00174423181/kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him.shtml#c1869 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:18:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/00174423181/kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him.shtml#c1869
they are both doing the same job (feeding fuel to the engine) but with 2 different METHODS.

But I don't expect you to understand the difference, you've been worshiping masnick for too long.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/00174423181/kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him.shtml#c1868 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:14:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/00174423181/kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him.shtml#c1868
and as you should well know, (but clearly do not) patents are A METHOD to achieve a result, NOT THE FUCKING result itself.

This one apparently is "A METHOD OF PASSWORD" authentication.

Notice it is not THE method, or the only method possible, but it is simply A METHOD.

for example, "A method of supplying fuel to an internal combustion engine" Might describe the method of using a type of carburettor, ANOTHER METHOD might be using a form of FUEL Injector.

You don't patent 'feeding fuel to an engine' you patent A METHOD of feeding fuel into an engine.

Therefore this is a method of password authentication, it is NOT the method.

Just as prior art does not apply between carburation and fuel injection it does not apply here.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c100 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:13:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c100 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01434213446/dailydirt-tuition-debt-is-chumps.shtml#c7 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:13:19 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01434213446/dailydirt-tuition-debt-is-chumps.shtml#c7 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/00174423181/kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him.shtml#c1856 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:13:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/00174423181/kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him.shtml#c1856 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/00174423181/kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him.shtml#c1848 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:12:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/00174423181/kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him.shtml#c1848 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c79 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:02:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c79 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c56 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:59:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c56
I'm going to pick out this from the mess: "Frustratingly, they suggest that you have to enforce copyright to keep it, which is simply not true." For use as my launch point, though I SEE the way you mean it; however, it's more important to note that while it's literally true that you can have your copyright yet not enforce it, you LIKELY won't get any money from your product that way! And other people will, so it's doubly immoral. And, yet again, I hold that morality is an essential point about copyright, or on trademark here, at least as far as your text explains the shouting match.

But we know Mike isn't concerned about morality, so drop that.

On to the "control" aspects. -- IF you've worked to make a bit of intellectual property, then you own it just as much as if your labor shapes a physical object. Of course once you've done the labor there is always the lazy many who covet the item and will steal it if they can. Thieves use a variety of word tricks to undermine ownership, and one of them is the loaded concept of "control". They'll argue that "control" isn't in your best interests, that you're not playing "fair", call you greedy merely because you want a little from everyone in exchange for a highly-valued item that the thieves couldn't and wouldn't make. And that's clearly the way "control" is used above.



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* as seen on Numberphile, I don't claim this pun as my own.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c150 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:44:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c150 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c332 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:42:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c332 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c309 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:38:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c309
Three! The difference between a 6 and 9 is three. What does that have to do with trademarks?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130523/01030023182/man-butt-dials-911-while-discussing-murder-plot.shtml#c783 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:36:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130523/01030023182/man-butt-dials-911-while-discussing-murder-plot.shtml#c783 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/11301723178/amazon-wants-to-sell-fan-fiction-with-it-originator-fanfic-author-all-sharing-profits.shtml#c549 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:35:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/11301723178/amazon-wants-to-sell-fan-fiction-with-it-originator-fanfic-author-all-sharing-profits.shtml#c549
Anyway, on to the funny part. You think the Pirate Party is going to get copyright lowered to five years? In your lifetime? The Pirate Party is an international joke. A feckless bunch of malcontents, wannabe anarchists and the mentally ill. They're so pitiful in the US that the national party had to be taken over by the Florida state party which says a lot given they only consist of a handful of crackpots and losers. I predict it won't be long before you are begging Amazon to publish your drivel. Just remember 35% of zero is still zero.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130523/01030023182/man-butt-dials-911-while-discussing-murder-plot.shtml#c759 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:35:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130523/01030023182/man-butt-dials-911-while-discussing-murder-plot.shtml#c759 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c291 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:32:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c291 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c268 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:31:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c268
Please refer to "Love Potions" for prior art.

Oh, wait, I pulled a Savage and mixed those up.]]>