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The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making "illegal streaming" of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.

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|||Or the current state of innovation in the USA

|||It's nice to see how the hundreds of millions of dollars donated for cancer research by regular people are being used against those same people.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...-gene-test.ars

Appeals Court overrules lower court, upholds breast cancer gene test

By John Timmer | Published about 22 hours ago

A bit over two years ago, a large collection of interested parties joined together with the ACLU to challenge a practice that had become business as usual: the patenting of human genes. The group filed a suit that targeted a specific set of patents: those used by Myriad Genetics to control the market for tests of the BRCA breast cancer genes. In a surprise result, the judge overseeing the case issued a sweeping ruling that not only voided Myriad's patents, but seemed to put all gene patents at risk. Now that decision has been reversed, as an Appeals Court has upheld the patents in question.

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http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2011/...s-samsung.html

Totally awesome: FOSS Patents: Samsung cites "2001" movie as prior art against iPad patent

Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." In a clip from that film lasting about one minute, two astronauts are eating and at the same time using personal tablet computers. The clip can be downloaded online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8pQVDyaLo. As with the design claimed by the D’889 Patent, the tablet disclosed in the clip has an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table's surface), and a thin form factor.

|||they had them in star trek tng also. those didn't look quite the same, but they were very similar.

in star trek they held them in portrait view, and the OS was that weird bubbly/streaking one the enterprise D had.