Microsoft Patents Music Appreciation
from the double-groovy dept
theodp writes "Ever find yourself agreeing with a rock critic's assessment that a certain Nirvana song is 'angry'? If so, beware! From here on in, you could be infringing on Microsoft's just-issued patent for Training a trainee to classify fundamental properties of media entities, which Microsoft explains covers teaching one to recognize that the Beastie Boys' Hey Ladies is an example of a 'fun song.'" And as you read the patent, it just gets better and better. The "process" involves a "double grooving" phase that allows the listener to become a "groover." Well, isn't that just double groovy? Does anyone actually read these patents?
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Unbelievable!
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The system's broken
Corruption can only persist so long before the government loses the image of legitimacy in the eyes of the people. The U.S. needs to shape up now because these patent issues that keep popping up stem from the much bigger problem, and that is one that threatens to plunge the entire country into chaos.
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This *can't* be real....
*hooray for the EU rejecting the CII directive!*
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Company or employee idea?
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Blurring the lines
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Nothing like spreading some extra filthy lucre to blur the lines, or at least to facilitate future attempts to seem like a less-evil empire...
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