Read more at: Maximum PC | Patent Troll Sues Restaurants and Hotels Offering Wi-Fi, Copies RIAA's Slimy TacticsThink Apple’s patent war against Samsung is ballsy and ridiculous? You’re right – it is. But there’s an even worse patent troll sculking around, and it’s much more sinister; while Apple and Microsoft are busy targeting other megacorporations, the Deleware-based Innovatio IP Ventures, LLC, is busy suing any mom-and-pop restaurant or hotel franchisee that offers Wi-Fi to its customers.
......Theoretically, Innovatio’s claims could open the possibility of the firm suing everyday folks with Wi-Fi routers, though Matthew McAndrews, the group’s attorney, told The Patent Examiner that it had no plans to pursue residential customers at this stage.......
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- 10-04-2011 #1
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My System SpecsPatent Troll Sues Restaurants and Hotels Offering Wi-Fi, Copies RIAA's
- 10-05-2011 #2My System Specs
Vile, parasitic scumbags! This is nothing short of extortion.
This reads that they DO have plans to extend this extortion racket....no plans to pursue residential customers at this stage...
- 10-05-2011 #3My System Specs
This will be interesting to follow. I really wonder how much luck they will have in the courts.
- 10-05-2011 #4
- 10-05-2011 #5My System Specs
If they win any of these cases... all my faith in the justice system = completely destroyed (not that I have a heck of a lot left anyway
Originally Posted by Brink 
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- 10-07-2011 #6My System Specs
W-what... How is that even viable? Might as well go and sue pretty much every hotel in existence, no? Idiots...
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