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It’s Sony.

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Aren’t patent registered mainly in America ?

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Isn’t Sony a Japanese company?

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51 points

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Say what you will about his methods (and some of his other ideas), but the man had some good ideas!

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39 points

Do I drink the verification can now?

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34 points

Ngl if this actually happens im commiting anti corporate terrorism (for legal reasons this is a joke)

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Sure thing Johnny Silverhand, just a joke…

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32 points

what is this shit? I warn you I need to know RIGHT NOW or im gonna cry

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78 points

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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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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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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