[ale] Phillips CD patent

[Jim Popovitch]

LOL.  That letter is too funny.  Brian must see some impending doom in his
near future and he is trying to create work in order to look busy. (This is
known as Lawyers' Religion).  Somewhere Phillips/Sony got a hold of a list
of companies and they are just trying to scare people into buying only their
"approved" CD vendors.  I honestly can't fault Brian for trying this.... BUT
the unwritten words might suggest that Phillips and or Sony are having
problems (IE: experiencing Revenue Losses) with others who are abusing their
patents.  Sure there would some legal issue there.... but the bigger story
would be the affect of Revenue Loss on Phillips and/or Sony's bottom line.
:)

Send a copy of that letter to the local press.... get some coverage.  ;)

-Jim P.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 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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