[ale] Phillips CD patent

[Adrin]

HAHAHAHAHA   I wonder if they sent the RIAA a letter.

Adrin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of James P.
> Kinney III
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 8:29 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux User Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ale] Phillips CD patent
> 
> 
> OK. I tried posting a tarball f the scanned images of the letter, but
> there is a max size on the list that prevents it. So I put them on my
> webserver
> 
> http://www.localnetsolutions.com/~jkinney/
> 
> The images are big.
> 
> On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 17:40, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> > Hmmm.. IANAL, but this sounds like a scare tactic.  If you bought a 
> > product and aren't the manufacturer of the drive, I don't think you can 
> > be held accountable for creating cdroms/dvdroms with the device.  Since 
> > you're not "creating" the cdroms by hand (as if it were possible), and 
> > you're using a vendor's device, the vendor should be the only person 
> > that can be accountable.
> > 
> > Thats just my belief, but as I said, I Am Not A Lawyer.
> > 
> > -CB
> > 
> > Any possibility of you posting the letter or a scanned image of it?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > 
> > >I just got the strangest letter from Phillips IP legal group. Basically,
> > >they own butt loads of patents on CD technology. Including the making of
> > >the disks themselves. Apparently, there are some cd-r cd-rw and dvd-r
> > >and dvd-rw disk makers that are not paying out their license fees to
> > >Phillips for the making of the media. So the letter is a warning that if
> > >I, or my company specifically, is using any of the "bootleg" blank
> > >disks, Phillips will then consider that I am an accomplice and will be
> > >subject to paying the license fee on the disks myself.
> > >
> > >WTF!!!
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > 
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