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byavgjoe62 ( 558860 ) writes:
Isn't the concept of an advertisement running before you see content as old as radio and TV? Didn't I have to watch Timex commercials to see the TV shows they sponsored?
I think this is just another example of "Same old stuff, but now on the Interwebs!"
Unless there is an actual physical product. patents are inappropriate. Copyright a presentation of an idea, but patenting a thought is a path to policing thought... and wasting time having the courts arbitrate such.
bypsxndc ( 105904 ) writes:
No, that is not what the patent is about.
It's about offering the content for sale AND offering it for free, but you only get it for free if you watch an ad first.
byavgjoe62 ( 558860 ) writes:
It's about offering the content for sale AND offering it for free, but you only get it for free if you watch an ad first.
You mean like the HouseorFirefly boxed DVD sets?
bypsxndc ( 105904 ) writes:
Could you be a little more specific? Is there a place you can buy them and get them for free, but to get them for free you have to watch an ad first?
The patent is directed to a website that sells things.
And the patent goes back to 2000.
byavgjoe62 ( 558860 ) writes:
Turn your TV on and you can still watch reruns of House and Firefly, but you do have to put up with commercials. Why, I can even record them to my VCR and/or DVR, but the commercials are still in there.
If I go and buy the DVDs (or, twelve years ago, the VHS) I get to see them commercial free.
So, what we have is a way I can watch them for free, but I have to watch a commercial too or I can watch them without commercials if I buy it. The only difference with the patent is that now we did it on a websit
bypsxndc ( 105904 ) writes:
That sounds like a pain in the ass. I agree: Solving that problem 12 years does sound like innovation. Oh, I see. You're the type that thinks innovation has to be lightbulb-level innovation. Well, agree to disagree.
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