Softvault sues Microsoft and others over DRM

I'm a huge M$ fan personally, so i hope they win

ummmm article is kind of small and doesn't give to may details, but who cares.... Wow does softwault realize the hornets nest it's poking at??? It's going after the biggest names in the computer industry. kind of interested how microsoft will handle this one. LD

http://www.softvault.com/pages/1/index.htm explains the patents in question a little bit better LD

Ah. These guys patented "keeping connection up through periodic ping checks". Awesome. Only a good half of network-based applications use a system that patent in question could argueably cover. January 2006 - viral patent suit month.

Do you think Softvault could really handle a lawsuit of this magnatude?

whether one is a fan or enemy of M$ or any other group being sued isn't important. what is important is that, if these companies really did infringe a patent, they are made to pay reparations; if they don't, they'll get away with the same corporate thievery that they have gotten away with for so many decades, and another chance for the right thing to happen will not. even if your the big guy, that size doesn't entitle you to justify taking whatever you want from the little guy when he's the one who came up with it--even though countries get away with it all the time...coup d'etat!

Hope iRiver are ok.. -Mike

Who cares? It's DRM. Maybe this case will help with the reform of the patent system to disallow software patents once and for all. Also, anytime DRM is brought into public it is a good thing, since all these companies are always trying to hide it.

good,glad to here that.Maybe Microsoft will bag the DRM because it sucks anyways.Either way they will still lose some money with getting sued or manufacturing a new OS with DRM.I wouldn't buy an OS with DRM so they lost some money right there.I do like microsoft though despite the DRM problem.I'm glad that softvault has a patent on their DRM.It will be interesting to see a small company sue a big giant.Any bets?

M$ will win this one.

Even if M$ doesnt win, it's not exactly going to hurt them.

So either: A) This company wins, and they have their spy-technology protected by the government, or B) The big companies triumph, and we all continue to get stuck with ball-and-chain DRM. I think I'm just going to stop buying anything "legal" from now on.

I don't think M$ will win this one cause afterall whe nwas the last time such a small companie tried anything this big on M$. but thats just my oppinion

Isn't it ironic that a website almost exclusively dedicated to facilitating the hacking industry would generate comments againts the same thing, only by corporations?

I'm pretty sick of al lthese little sh*t companies who sit back and patent ultra basic stuff and then don't say a boo until the settlement will be in the millions. These little lawsuits are all scams basically, the patent holder never says boo ultil the othe rocmpany unknowingly has infringed on the patent for years. Then they sue.

sounds like a good idea to buy Softvault stock since microshaft will be buying them soon enough.;p

I would love to patent this: Before a company files a lawsuit against another company a one time fee must be payed to my company to continue with all of the bulls**t your company is complaining about. Patent 6,548,958.

You have the tens of thousands to patent whatever you want, go for it.

Check out the actual patents. This company's claim seems to be a pile of ...well.... links for the patents are http://tinyurl.com/8kj2q and http://tinyurl.com/765dc (edited by admin, replaced long URLs with tinyurls)

Yea, go softvault, hate microsoft...

MS gets the sh*ts when their produccts are pirated or copyed or whatever. So they should treat other companys the same way they want to be treated.

i hope Softvault gets there ass countersued microsoft could higher the bigest lawyers and they will find a way to counter sue

All I can say is those people at softvault are idiots. Do they really thing they can win. Money talks and I wonder who has more.

I agree software patents are a bunch of cocka but unfortunately the Big M will win. MS makes 32 Million a day or more do you think a little company can take on these guys.