Stupid Tech Lawsuits: Examples & Effects

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Modern tech lawsuits are increasingly seen as detrimental to innovation and progress. A notable case involves parents suing a school district in Illinois over the perceived health risks of Wi-Fi, claiming it poses hazards to students. Another significant lawsuit features SunnComm, a company that created copy-protected CDs, suing a Princeton graduate student for demonstrating how to bypass their copy protection using the shift key, citing the DMCA. Additionally, Eolas recently won a lawsuit that restricts how plugins like Flash and Java load in browsers, although they later dropped the suit, acknowledging its implications. Overall, these lawsuits highlight concerns about their impact on technological advancement and the broader implications for the industry.
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I have started this thread to show the stupidity in modern tech lawsuits and how it is affecting innovation and progress. Please post your stupid tech lawsuits.

1) Parents Sue School Over Use of Wi-Fi Network

Aparently, the parents believe that Wi-Fi is hazardous to our health and are filing a class action lawsuit against an Illinois school district.

Article: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60769,00.html

2) SunnComm Says Pointing to Shift Key 'Possible Felony'

BMG, the music company, just released copy protected cds with technology created by SunnComm. Unfortunetely, people realized that you can bypass the copy protection by holding your shift key in windows to prevent autorun. Specifically, a computer science graduate student from Princeton released a paper on the subject and is now facing a lawsuit from the company under the DMCA.

The kicker is that SunnComm's CEO stated, 'No matter what their credentials or rationale, it is wrong to use one's knowledge and the cover of academia to facilitate piracy and theft of digital property.'

Article:
http://home.businesswire.com/portal...newsLang=en&beanID=202776713&viewID=news_view

3) Eolas files motion to stop IE from being distributed by microsoft

Just recently, Eolas won a lawsuit concerning how plugins are loaded in browsers. This means flash, java , activex , etc cannot load automatically.

Article:
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5088349.html
 
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1209&e=3&u=/nm/20031010/wr_nm/media_sunncomm_dc&sid=95573713

They dropped the suit, realizing just how stupid they were being, but I completely agree with ya.

Hey, let's make another stupid suit. Sue the RIAA for overcharging.
 
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