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Re:Anti-Piracy Patent Aims to Stop Students from Sharing Tex... by chris_wot on Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:07PM (#4093038)
In Australia it's called "restraint of trade" and is totally illegal. eBay tried to do something similar by forcing users to use PayPal and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) struck it down.

This patent might work in areas of the world that don't have much consumer protection, but they will NOT work in areas of the world that care about anti-competitive practices.

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Re:Anti-Piracy Patent Aims to Stop Students from Sharing Tex... by chris_wot on Monday June 18, 2012 @03:44PM (#4128131)
Argh! Not restraint of trade, "third line forcing" is the term! Oops.
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