This law is one of those asinine holdovers from the forties.
Take this for example; Back in the sixties, Gregory Peck did an excellent documentary on JFK, called 'Years of Lightning, Day of Drums'. But because the movie was funded by the US Information Agency, you can't legally view it in the US. (Except in person, at the Kennedy Center, and it took an act of Congress to even allow that!)
Just because a company decides to enforce the hard work and money they have put behind their creations
Go read the patents Burst and Apple are fighting over. They're so dead stupid your average community school dropout could infringe them given the same problem to solve. A patent office rubber stamp doesn't mean the idea is good, workable, or even non-obvious these days. It just means they paid their filing fee and filled out the forms without getting too much drool on them.
I clearly remember Apple threatening people who mentioned Ipod in any of their websites or products with a lawsuit
No, you remember Apple threatening people who published pre-release details of upcoming products. Y'know, disclosure of trade secrets.
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This law is one of those asinine holdovers from the forties.
Take this for example; Back in the sixties, Gregory Peck did an excellent documentary on JFK, called 'Years of Lightning, Day of Drums'. But because the movie was funded by the US Information Agency, you can't legally view it in the US. (Except in person, at the Kennedy Center, and it took an act of Congress to even allow that!)
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Just because a company decides to enforce the hard work and money they have put behind their creations
Go read the patents Burst and Apple are fighting over. They're so dead stupid your average community school dropout could infringe them given the same problem to solve. A patent office rubber stamp doesn't mean the idea is good, workable, or even non-obvious these days. It just means they paid their filing fee and filled out the forms without getting too much drool on them.
I clearly remember Apple threatening people who mentioned Ipod in any of their websites or products with a lawsuit
No, you remember Apple threatening people who published pre-release details of upcoming products. Y'know, disclosure of trade secrets.