Lawsuits involving file sharing services are far from new, but a small California company called Tranz-Send Broadcasting Network accomplished the feat to innovate in this matter. The company is triggering "business" as uTorrent and BitTorrent in court because of alleged copyright infringement, and so far so good.
But instead of trying to assert their rights over possible illegal downloads of movies and music, the company claims to own the technology torrent and says the misuse of their intellectual property for services "it caused untold damage."
"When you do, operate and maintain its services, BitTorrent and continues to infringe infringe our patents," the company said.
The Tranz-Send claims that in April 1999 filed a patent on "Adaptive Protocols for Distribution File Distribution Media", which was only granted in November 2007 and described a model that involved sharing a database file, a client downloads and a central server.
Although this model is not exactly the services used by Torrent, fit them to fight these charges before a court. By the time of Tranz-Send lawyers have not determined any possible value for your compensation.
