I'm sure I've seen md5: URIs as examples in some document, I think an
RFC on URNs maybe? I'll have a look sometime if I get around to it, but
it's not really worth fighting individual patents until you really have
to. The top campaigning priority (even higher than the Community Patent,
EPLA and London Agreement) MUST be to fight the IPRED2, because if that
passes, we're in deep camel dung: Freenet would almost certainly be
illegal per se (aiding and abetting copyright infringement), and most
software authors, open source or not, would become criminals
("intentional" infringement of a patent "on a commercial scale",
punishable by prison time, judicial winding up etc).http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/ipred2/ipred2.en.html http://www.fipr.org/copyright/ipred2.html http://wiki.ffii.org/Ipred2060510En http://www.ffii.org.uk/archives/23 Frankly the IPRED2 would greatly reduce my respect for criminal law, not to mention for the European institutions involved... Is there an EPO equivalent for the below? I came across the below years ago but could never find it again when I wanted to... On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:17:14AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > This patent purports to cover the rather obvious idea of "using > substantially unique identifiers to identify data items, whereby > identical data items have the same identifiers": > > http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5978791.html > > It was filed in October 1997, and is owned by Altnet, who are > currently using it to sue Streamcast (creators of Morpheus), and, if > they prevail or of Streamcast caves, could conceivably attack other > P2P networks, including Freenet: > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060815-7508.html > > Now it is hard to believe that prior art wouldn't exist for such an > obvious idea, claim one is a text book definition of a hash function > which have been around for decades, claim 2 would seem to describe a > hashtable, also a notion with clear prior art going back decades, > claim 5 seems to describe the operation of a cache, and so on. > > But then the claims discuss using this technique to retrieve things > over a network. Now, one might argue that simply applying a common > computer science technique to a distributed situation is not novel (I > don't believe you can get a valid patent simply by combining two > other things you didn't invent), but it would be really useful to > find some robust examples of requesting files by their hashes over a > network that pre-date October 1997. > > I have heard that the Xanadu project may have something in 1990, but > haven't got any specific references. Is anyone aware of anything > concrete? > > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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