Why “Intellectual Property” sucks – a recent case

Cory Doctorow from BoingBoing has recently discussed the case of Landmark Digital Services (Creators of “Shazam”, an audio fingerprinting tool) threatening a guy who was discussing how to implement an audio-fingerprinting algorithm. To make a long story short, Landmark Digital Services (“Shazam”), accused Roy van Rjin of infringing on their patents by discussing how audio-fingerprinting […]