[Leaplist] RH to patent DRM

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ray wrote:
> http://www.freshpatents.com/Rights-management-system-dt20050623ptan20050138406.php
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> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2574359
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> http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/01/14/2252202.shtml
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>       Alan Cox Files Patent For DRM
>
> *Posted by kdawson on Monday January 15, @07:42AM*
> *from the *counter-troll* dept.*
> Linux Business <http://linux.slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=163> Patents 
> <http://linux.slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=155>
> booooh <mailto:booooh at gmail.com> writes /"Alan Cox has filed a patent 
> for DRM 
> <http://www.freshpatents.com/Rights-management-system-dt20050623ptan20050138406.php> 
> (Digital Rights Management). From the filing: 'A rights management 
> system monitors and controls use of a computer program to prevent use 
> that is not in compliance with acceptable terms.' According to the 
> patent pledge of Cox's employer Red Hat, they will not license this 
> technology if the patent is granted. And it can probably be applied to 
> the DRM that is in Vista. This forum has a few more details 
> <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2574359>./
>  [+] <http://linux.slashdot.org/login.pl> haha 
> <http://linux.slashdot.org/tags/haha>, patents 
> <http://linux.slashdot.org/tags/patents>, priorart 
> <http://linux.slashdot.org/tags/priorart>, drm 
> <http://linux.slashdot.org/tags/drm> /(tagging beta 
> <http://linux.slashdot.org/faq/tags.shtml>)
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> /Very interesting if you ask me.  I will be interested to see if he 
> wins the patent, and to see what he does with it after words.  could 
> this be the begging of the end of DRM as we know it today?  god i hope 
> so./
> /
>
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I am impressed by the genius of it all.  With secure back up in hand, 
all other forms of DRM would seem stupid, and all of the sheeple would 
shy away, thus killing DRM!  Of course, he could license his version to 
the closed source people, with the announcement thereof, plus, make it a 
note in all FOSS that we do not do DRM even if we did patent the RIGHT 
way to DRM!  There are a lot more scenarios, all win-win, for Cox, and 
for FOSS!