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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by pkinsky on Friday July 19, 2013 @03:51PM (#6072508)
What if 'you' are an anonymous remailer service account and a bitcoin address? It would be amusing if patent trolling got bad enough to force startups to operate on the black market.

After all, what's the ROI on legitimacy if the state can't protect you from banditry?

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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by rfctr on Friday July 19, 2013 @04:40PM (#6072835)
What if his daughter really got killed or raped?
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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by pkinsky on Friday July 19, 2013 @05:02PM (#6072946)
<sociopath>Other patent assertion entities would be inspired to think carefully about targeting entities subscribing to our protection service.</sociopath>
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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by rfctr on Friday July 19, 2013 @05:20PM (#6073033)
I dunno how it is in US, but in other places all kinds of shady businesses are protected by organized crime. Try to harass their businesses and jokes may end pretty quick.
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