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TechnicalCreative@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Basically, Sony owns a patent that forces you to say the brand name during a commercial break to end said commercial… it’s from 2019, and it understandably stirred up some controversy back then.

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noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Important context is that companies often just patent shit in case one day it’s valuable. Yes IP is stupid, yes capitalism is evil.

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ZILtoid1991@kbin.social
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Only time, when patent trolling is good, so other companies won’t be able to use it, unless they shell out a lot of money to Sony.

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vankappa@lemmy.world
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thanks, even the fact that somebody thought about it, and thought that somebody else could do it before them, it’s nightmarish

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