Microsoft sued by Lucent

[luck777jojo]

Lucent, the company behind MPEG2, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft for their use of the MPEG2 decoder in the X-Box 360.

Lucent claims that Microsoft violated several patent laws in the use of the MPEG2 decoder in the X-Box 360. They are currently demanding that all X-Box 360's be pulled from the market.

This is not the first time Lucent tried to sue Microsoft for this; however, their first attempt was dismissed because of a technicality.

Read the full story here: http://www.gamernode.com/article/866

[Ping_pong]

What a lamo is that Lucent.. :/ Let Mircosoft do his job.. Ok I admit i'm not a big fan of microsoft but i don't like people trying to get money on a bad way.

[-CottonMouth66-]

ROfl i dont believe in what lucent is doing but i am holding a 100 bucks in that company and I want some money.

[No1uKnow]

ah well if what their claiming is true they have rights to sue

but give me a break, microsoft....

I mean damn >.< like they'd ever do anything wrong

[luck777jojo]

this is more of a publicity stunt than actually an attempt to get something from MS. Lucent basically just wants some news coverage and media attention.

[vietfrost]

First netscape and now this. When will microsoft learn that stealing is bad and can cause lawsuits for billions of dolllars.

[ihateacid]

MPC getting low on news ? :D

lawsuits: love America :P

[luck777jojo]

MPC getting low on news ? :D

well yeah, plus I thought you guys might enjoy some other interesting news except stuff that is going on at MPC

I mean I read a bunch of articles daily (mostly because I have to to keep me up to date with security issues and stuff like that) and sometimes I find interesting articles that I think you guys might find interesting so... might as well post em here IMHO

[tdlrali]

meh, i would sue MS if i found something i could sue them over *hopes they steal his code and put it in vista*

I mean I read a bunch of articles daily
Slashdot, Digg, Fark, Engadget?

[luck777jojo]

Slashdot, Digg, Fark, Engadget? add to that hardOCP, NewOrder, WindowsSecurity, and onLamp.

Plus I also subscribe to a bunch of daily security mailing lists :x

basically it takes me about 4 hours to read through all this stuff, granted I rarely have the time to do that so I usually just glance through them and only read the articles that I think sound interesting/important.

[Conker]

rofl another american lawsuit, can't they just settle rather than sue, god, honestly

[gil]

I'd call it whining.
Don't they have better things to do?...

[drfresh]

bill gates hacks my system every day and wacks off to it