When Anti-Pirates Sue Each Other Over Pirating Each Other's Technology...
from the this-gets-fun dept
Well, this is fun. A tech company in Germany is claiming that movie studio Warner Bros. has "pirated" its "anti-piracy" technology. No, seriously. You can read the full complaint (pdf) below:Making things even more amusing? In the lawsuit, MPV mis-identifies its own patent, incorrectly using the title of a patent.. held by Warner Bros! MPV's patent 7,187,633 is titled "Marking of a data medium material for information intended for reproduction." Warner Bros., though, has a different patent, 7,206,409, titled "Motion picture anti-piracy coding." But in the filing... MPV refers to the title of its own patent as "Motion picture anti-piracy coding" and never mentions Warner's actual patent by that name. Ooooops. Oh, and the WB patent? Filed before MPVs...
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Filed Under: anti-piracy technology, movies, patents, piracy, watermarking
Companies: medien patent verwaltung, mpv, warner bros.
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Before you can verify the product you bought is legitimate, you have to verify that the verification scheme that is attached to the product is legitimate.
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and then
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and the grass is always greener
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Hope they both lose
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Oh well
We live in a world where some loser can be a world famous actor doing shit all and making millions, and where geniuses who invent/ find cures for diseases and the like get nothing and no fame.
Stupid world.
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Schadenfreude
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This is good!
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shock
I am completely shocked and dismayed that a large company would steal from a small company. What is the world coming to??
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Mike the Judicial Scholar (NOT)
This document does not in any way show us the basis or even claimed basis for independent invention by Warner nor should it! Warner has to do that not the Plaintiff! How you, Mike can assert such a claim without apparent evidence of any kind suggests foolish blather or a payoff from Warner (perhaps both).
You should be embarrassed by this Mike. In that you clearly are not any temptation anyone reading your worthless blather you be warned off by the following announcement.
THIS BLOG FAILS ALL TESTS OF RATIONAL THOUGHT AND CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THE TRUTH
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Re: Mike the Judicial Scholar (NOT)
The evidence is in the mistake pointed out. MPV has at least read about the Warner patent for something similar (because they mis-used the name of the Warner patent). They avoided discussing this patent that they know about. The Warner patent was filed before the MPV patent. Any of this making sense to you?
Nope - there is not conclusive evidence yet. I guess that is why Mike wrote: "it seems like a typically ridiculous patent scenario" rather than: "there is proof that this is a bogus lawsuit".
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Both Technicolor and Deluxe have used systems to mark film and to record serial numbers against cinemas
MPV, me thinks, are just trying-it-on in the hope they can make a fast buck or million
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