<story><title>Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/amazon-owes-525-mln-cloud-storage-patent-fight-us-jury-says-2024-04-11/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jochim</author><text>The concept of intellectual property is antithetical to how humans have progressed socially and technologically for millenia.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a wasteful aberration that strangles innovation with red tape and hands control of our culture over to those with the financial mean to claim to own it.&lt;p&gt;The day we wrest back that control will be a good day.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/amazon-owes-525-mln-cloud-storage-patent-fight-us-jury-says-2024-04-11/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>I looked up the first of the patents. Here&amp;#x27;s its PDF:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ppubs.uspto.gov&amp;#x2F;dirsearch-public&amp;#x2F;print&amp;#x2F;downloadPdf&amp;#x2F;7814180&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ppubs.uspto.gov&amp;#x2F;dirsearch-public&amp;#x2F;print&amp;#x2F;downloadPdf&amp;#x2F;7...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a patent lawyer, just a programmer, but reading just the abstract, this seems to be covering a DNS system that can be configured via an API, which I guess does cover S3, but also, like, almost every other domain-related thing?</text></comment>