[ale] Phillips CD patent

[Geoffrey]

So how do you determine this?

Just one more reason for me to NOT do business with Philips (beside the 
POS Philips cdwriter that lasted about 1 year).

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I just got the strangest letter from Phillips IP legal group. Basically,
> they own butt loads of patents on CD technology. Including the making of
> the disks themselves. Apparently, there are some cd-r cd-rw and dvd-r
> and dvd-rw disk makers that are not paying out their license fees to
> Phillips for the making of the media. So the letter is a warning that if
> I, or my company specifically, is using any of the "bootleg" blank
> disks, Phillips will then consider that I am an accomplice and will be
> subject to paying the license fee on the disks myself.
> 
> WTF!!!
> 

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...

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