[LAU] [Packet-in-user] album files (it isn't a troll)

[drew Roberts]

On Saturday 22 March 2008 06:34:39 Arnold Krille wrote:
> Am Samstag, 22. März 2008 schrieb Folderol:
> > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:42:04 -0400
> >
> > frank <frankpirrone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Arnold Krille wrote:
> > > > Am Freitag, 21. März 2008 schrieb frank:
> > > >> NO, the drum patterns are NOT copyright.  If they WERE, once my head
> > > >> cleared a bit, I  would head directly to the USPTO and register
> > > >> every damned note of the 12-tone even-tempered scale left unclaimed.
> > > >
> > > > Please tell me when you do that. I will be the next in the line to
> > > > register all the blue-notes and all the non-even-tempered notes.
> > > > Basicly I would register all the frequencies not already registered
> > > > by you... Would be really a lot of royalties.
> > >
> > > Geez, Arnold, you are an idea monster!  I had never considered
> > > blue-notes OR microtonal possibilities at ALL.  Well, there goes a
> > > small fortune I could have locked up...
> >
> > I have just applied for a patent covering a method of varying pitch on
> > successive notes such that, to the listener, they seem to fit another
> > patented scale but are actually randomly, but measurably different :)
>
> I think I will also patent the "converting sound pressure to electric
> potentials in biological material". Should cover every ear on the world. I
> will be *RICH*!
>
> We really should send this conversation to the fsf to support their arguing
> against software patents. Only we didn't talk about software but real
> patents here...

I have some ideas on patents here:

http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/2007/06/simple-idea-for-patent-reform.html
Simple Idea For Patent Reform

thoughts and refinements appreciated.
>
> Arnold

drew