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BT sues over hyperlinks

Dec 19, 2000 Internet, Telco

Today’s net-asshole / stupidhead award goes to BT who are now starting legal proceedings against US ISPs who are using hyperlinks. BT have one of these weird and quite vague patents which allows them to claim ownership of the technology used in the good old A tag in html.

This whole thing is quite similar to the Amazon one-click shopping thing a while back, except on a much larger scale. Personally I think the whole patent system is way out of sync with current technology and needs a good kick in the bum.

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