[p2p-hackers] Altnet goes after p2p networks with obvious patent

[Greg Bildson]

Just to be clear on the patents involved, there are two.  One was filed in
1997.  The other was filed in 1999.

This is a newer one of some kind (1999):
http://tinyurl.com/5vzf4

This is the 1997 one:
http://tinyurl.com/6zcu7

Any information about these and prior art would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
-greg

Greg Bildson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org [mailto:p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org]On
> Behalf Of Ian Clarke
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:17 PM
> To: Peer-to-peer development.
> Subject: [p2p-hackers] Altnet goes after p2p networks with obvious
> patent
>
>
> http://p2pnet.net/story/3512
>
> It seems that Altnet is finally going after file sharing networks with
> its laughably obvious patent on requesting files by a hash of the
> file's contents (fortunately Freenet's developers are predominantly
> European, and thus are largely immune to this).
>
> IIRC this patent was filed in 1997.  I think it is very important that
> those attacked challenge this patent head-on, either by claiming it is
> invalid due to being obvious, or finding prior art.
>
> I vaguely recall the last time I researched this that there was prior
> art from as early as 1990, I think it was Project Xanadu
> (http://xanadu.com/).
>
> Can anyone provide specific pointers to good examples of prior art?  If
> Altnet succeeds in extorting any money out of these P2P companies it
> will only serve to encourage them to attack others.
>
> Ian.
>
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