Computer Ethics, Fall 2023 online, class 14

Class 14 Readings

Videos:

• Software as Speech (week 9, 31 min)

• Patent examples (week 10, 48 min)

• Business-method patents (week 11, 28 min)

PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks

Sony removed a bunch of people's purchased content remotely.
www.theverge.com/2023/12/5/23989290/playstation-digital-ownership-sucks

Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers

Manifest V3 universal rollout is still half a year away. But people get ad-blockers, like uBlock Origin, through the Chrome Web Store, and Google is slowing down the approval process. They are also, apparently, speeding up the distribution of ad-blocker-fighting tools to advertisers.

arstechnica.com/google/2023/12/chromes-next-weapon-in-the-war-on-ad-blockers-slower-extension-updates.

State-street Bank and business-method patents

Apple patents

Bilski

Abstract Patents (the Supreme Court held that Bilski's idea was abstract, and thus not patentable)

Alice

Does KSR + Alice = Freedom?

Antitrust

Start with Amazon, then Apple

Crime

    Resume with Schwartz

    Then Childs, Amero, Auernheimer