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  1. Comment - Certicom Patent Suit Against Sony Threatens to Unravel AACS

    (Jun 1, 2007 - 4:58 PM)

    > stealing a patented system from someone else.

    Certicom's claims have not yet been tested in Court, so you cannot say there was any theft. Read those patents: they are ridiculous (obvious, too broad, having prior art, etc).

    Several years ago Certicom argued against RSA, claiming that ECC does not have such horrid licensing terms. It does.

    Until recently Certicom claimed that it had not sued anyone over its patents. It was just a business decision, not that they are nice boys. A too early lawsuit would have scared away many potential users. Waiting until there are enough users to make it very expensive to switch over to another encryption scheme is just mean.