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[FYI] SWPAT- Can a Hacker Outfox Microsoft?
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http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,55807,00.html
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Can a Hacker Outfox Microsoft?
By Pete Rojas
Story location:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55807,00.html
02:00 AM Oct. 18, 2002 PDT
[...]
Eager to allay fears about the scope of Palladium, Biddle insisted
that the impetus behind Palladium was solely to secure digital
entertainment content and that he knew of no way that it could be
used for the enforcement of software licensing. This assurance was
made while he spoke on a panel at the USENIX Symposium.
Skeptical that this was actually the case, fellow panelist Lucky
Green quickly filed two patents soon after the conference. The
patents described methods for using the Palladium infrastructure to
assist in the enforcement of software licensing. Green has a third
patent application on the way.
The twist is that Green has no intention of implementing these
techniques himself -- and in an interview with Wired News, declared
his intention to "aggressively enforce his patents," if granted, to
prevent anyone else from doing so.
[...]
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