{"id":12579,"date":"2011-10-11T15:59:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T20:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=12579"},"modified":"2024-01-02T08:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T14:13:34","slug":"amazon-kindle-fire-already-targeted-by-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/10\/amazon-kindle-fire-already-targeted-by-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Kindle Fire already targeted by trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fire.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-attachment-id=\"11993\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/09\/kindle-fire-versus-ipad-fight\/fire\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fire.png?fit=285%2C486&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"285,486\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kindlefire\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fire.png?fit=285%2C486&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fire.png?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11993\" title=\"kindlefire\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fire.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fire.png?resize=160%2C160&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fire.png?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fire.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fire.png?resize=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Copyright trolls; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/09\/new-company-is-copyright-trolling-for-10-a-pop\/\">they&#8217;re<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/09\/bad-bedfellows-verizon-wireless-takes-legal-stance-with-samsung-against-apple\/\">all<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/08\/canadian-record-labels-dont-pay-for-content-either\/\">over<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/05\/some-douche-sues-cnet-because-the-internet-sometimes-does-illegal-things\/\">the place<\/a>. We hate them, because instead of allowing technology to flourish (and become cheaper and more accessible to everyone) they&#8217;re trying to earn a quick million bucks by harassing people who make our favorite gadgets. The Amazon Kindle Fire, due out next month, is already under fire (lol puns!) by Acacia Reasearch, a firm that doesn&#8217;t make anything, but instead games the system by buying up intellectual properties and licensing them out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;ve already taken aim at Apple, who refused to settle, but Amazon is new to the hardware game. One of the patents that are allegedly infringed is &#8220;<em>According to the method, a graphical feature having a surface area is displayed on a touch-sensitive screen. ..To control software executing on the processor, a user-supplied writing on the surface area is received and the software is controlled responsive to the writing.<\/em>&#8221; Or as I like to call it, &#8220;using a touch interface.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second patent is titled &#8220;System And Method For Displaying And Manipulating Multiple Calendars On A Personal Digital Assistant,&#8221; which probably deals with syncing multiple calendars and displaying them in different colors, much like Outlook will do, except this is <em>on a PDA<\/em>. I hope that the US Government realizes this is the perfect opportunity to create jobs by forming a patent court, and hiring experts to research these infringements as well as establishing guidelines as to what is &#8220;too general&#8221; to be patented, like <strong>using a touch screen to navigate software<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2011\/10\/11\/amazon-kindle-fire-tablet-already-targeted-by-patent-troll\/\">BGR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindle Fire under patent attack! Frivolous lawsuits? Touchscreens &#038; calendars at risk! Can Amazon fight the copyright trolls?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[738],"tags":[595,1915,1048,2142,729,2240],"class_list":["post-12579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-bloody-patents","tag-copyright","tag-fire","tag-kindle","tag-troll"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fire-175x300.png?fit=175%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelghY-3gT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22682,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579\/revisions\/22682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}