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 It looks like the AACS Licensing Authority and Sony are under fire for......violating someone elses intellectual patent rights. Imagine that! Cryptography company Certicom filed suit in district court in Marshall, Texas yesterday claiming AACS encryption violates it's existing patent on what's known as Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) granted by the U.S. Patent Office in 2003. Even though the underlying mathematics behind ECC is centuries old, Certicom was able to obtain a patent. Sigh... You can smell the greed from here....sorta like bacon...mmmm....bacon! Yet another reason why copyright and patent law need a drastic overhaul. Betanews reports...In a move whose repercussions could seriously impact the future development of the AACS content protection system, and even endanger the production plans of high-definition disc console manufacturers worldwide, cryptography software provider Certicom this morning filed suit in Marshall, Texas, against Sony Corporation. Its claim is that Sony's use of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) in two of its implemented technologies - AACS and Digital Transmission Content Protection - conceptually violate Certicom's patents for that cryptographic method. A check of the US Patent and Trademark Office database does indeed turn up a 2003 patent filed in 2000 as a renewal of a concept first referenced by at least one of the creators in 1993. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           
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