Patent Attorney: Apple Will Go After Billions With Media Download Patent

[theFerf]

Michael Starkweather, a patent lawyer in Salt Lake City that recently negotiated an out-of-court settlement between Apple and the owner of a patent covering the downloading of media files, thinks Apple will now use it to control billions of dollars in digital media downloads.”I believe that, with this patent in hand, Apple will eventually be [...]

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[WyethDigital]

Sounds like more Apple fear-mongering. Downloading and media sharing has been around longer than this patent, so on a general basis, and even on some specific points, I think this is blowing things way out of proportion.

Eric