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RobertoOrtiz
06-05-2003, 05:19 PM
Quote:
"--If your company is thinking about delivering interactive video-on-demand cable-television programming or movies via satellite to consumers, maybe it'd better start thinking about paying royalties to Microsoft first. That's because Microsoft has just been granted exclusive United States patent rights to a "networked interactive entertainment system" which "allows viewers to create their own customized lists of preferred video content programs, such as movies, games, [and] TV shows." "

Link:
>>Link<< (http://www.embeddedwatch.com/wolfemicrosoftexclusivemay31.htm)

-R

PhilOsirus
06-05-2003, 06:27 PM
It's ridiculous. What's next, someone will get a patent for the Internet?

KayosIII
06-06-2003, 03:44 AM
"Interactive Networked Entertainment System"

Does that meen I need to pay Ol 'Evil Empire' everytime I take my pc over to a friends place for some Fragging Fun.

It also sounds like any fun site on the internent. Granting such a broad patent is clearly rediculous.... Now I am wishing I thought of it.

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