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El Reg has the story on chipmaker Broadcom sueing Netflix for shrinking the set-top box market, which it claims could not be done without infringing its patents.
In a lawsuit [PDF] filed late last week in California, the San Jose-based Broadcom – which designs and sells chipsets used in millions of set-top boxes – argued that "Netflix has caused, and continues to cause, substantial and irreparable harm to the Broadcom Entities [that] sell semiconductor chips used in the set top boxes that enable traditional cable television services.
"Upon information and belief, as a direct result of the on-demand streaming services provided by Netflix, the market for traditional cable services that require set top boxes has declined, and continues to decline, thereby substantially reducing Broadcom's set top box business."
The claim is that Netflix must have used Broadcom's "novel" patents to run its service
"Upon information and belief, Netflix could not displace traditional cable television services, or could not do so as effectively, without the use of the Broadcom Entities' patented technology"
Broadcom wants a jury trial, royalty fees, attorney fees, and damages.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Thursday March 19 2020, @01:48PM (1 child)
Netflix is probably the only thing keeping the nation calm at all right now while it's under increasing lockdown. Parents who are trying to work from home are propping their kids up in front of the screen and hitting 'play' on entire seasons of kids' programming.
Broadcom will be lucky if the judge summarily dismisses their suit. If they are unlucky, they will succeed in their lawsuit, take Netflix down, and then get lynched by the nation (and possibly large swathes of the world).
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @10:12PM
Yep and Netflix is brainwashing them with Cultural Marxist, anti-white, Jewish propaganda.