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r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 (cypnk@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 02:16:56 UTC r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖

Woo hoo!
Patent troll, Personal Audio LLC, was defeated in court by #EFF again. Their appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court and podcasters are free from this blight in the US
How this stupid patent was allowed in the first place boggles the mind, but the entire patent system needs an overhaul
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/eff-wins-final-victory-over-podcasting-patent
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1. EFF Wins Final Victory Over Podcasting Patent
  
  from Electronic Frontier Foundation
  
  Back in early 2013, the podcasting community was freaking out. A patent troll called Personal Audio LLC had sued comedian Adam Carolla and was threatening a bunch of smaller podcasters. Personal Audio claimed that the podcasters infringed U.S. Patent 8,112,504, which claims a “system for...
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