Has anyone considered the seizure of the Spanish domain actually had a second justification?
Is it really a coincidence that ICE would pick a Spanish domain at a time when the government there is trying to re-introduce their controversial copyright legislation...
Wouldn't teletext be the original form of electronic program guides?
I don't really know how all this prior-art crap works but teletext goes back to 1973-74 so how the heck does a 1991 (or even 1981) patent trump that!/div>
One has to wonder though at what percentage of the subscribers are business's or paid for with company credit cards.. A lot I expect.. They don't care about the price../div>
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Is it really a coincidence that ICE would pick a Spanish domain at a time when the government there is trying to re-introduce their controversial copyright legislation...
http://torrentfreak.com/law-to-shutdown-p2p-sites-resurrected-by-spanish-coalition -110125/
Looks a lot like someone was sending someone a message to me.../div>
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Wouldn't teletext be the original form of electronic program guides?
I don't really know how all this prior-art crap works but teletext goes back to 1973-74 so how the heck does a 1991 (or even 1981) patent trump that!/div>
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