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  • 23-08-2002 12:18pm
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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭


    Can you say "Greedy telco wasting money"?

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26802.html

    If they won, wouldn't they have to attempt to claim royalties from everyone who owns/operates a web page, otherwise those who did pay up could claim they were singled out? They were doomed to fail no matter what.....


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    Mountjoy Mugger
    Registered Users Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Mountjoy Mugger


    They had some blinking nerve trying it in the first place. Thank goodness reason prevailed.


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    If they won, wouldn't they have to attempt to claim royalties from everyone who owns/operates a web page, otherwise those who did pay up could claim they were singled out?

    Nope. They were trying to hit up the ISP's for the money, and the ISP's would have transferred the cost onto the end user. Everyone uses ISP's.

    They were doomed to fail no matter what...

    Well, they were, since there was crystal clear examples of prior art. You'd wonder exactly what they were trying to achieve by this. I wouldn't be surprised if there was an ulterior motive.

    adam (serial conspiracy theorist)


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