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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You realise that if that were to be “fixed”, you wouldn’t end up paying the low price, Brazil would end up paying the high price. One they can’t afford because they make as much in a month as you do in a week, or worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zynga owes IBM $45M after using 1980s patented technology for hit games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IBM argued that its patent, initially used to launch Prodigy, remains “fundamental to the efficient communication of Internet content.” Known as patent '849, that patent introduced “novel methods for presenting applications and advertisements in an interactive service that would take advantage of the computing power of each user’s personal computer (PC) and thereby reduce demand on host servers, such as those used by Prodigy,” which made it “more efficient than conventional systems.”

  According to IBM’s complaint, “By harnessing the processing and storage capabilities of the user’s PC, applications could then be composed on the fly from objects stored locally on the PC, reducing reliance on Prodigy’s server and network resources.”

  The jury found that Zynga infringed that patent, as well as a '719 patent designed to “improve the performance” of Internet apps by “reducing network communication delays.” That patent describes technology that improves an app’s performance by “reducing the number of required interactions between client and server,” IBM’s complaint said, and also makes it easier to develop and update apps.

  All I can say is yikes.