{"id":738,"date":"2006-03-07T17:25:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2006-03-11T01:19:28","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T06:19:28","slug":"patenting-virtual-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Patenting Virtual Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Clickable Culture comes word that Microsoft has patented something having to do with in-game spectating. From Tony&#8217;s post (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretlair.com\/index.php?\/clickableculture\/entry\/microsoft_patents_game_spectatorship_tech\/\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft has just scored its 5,000th patent in the U.S., covering &#8220;technologies that allow people to not just play video games against each other online, but to join the game as a spectator from anywhere in the world,&#8221; according to an official announcement yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I mentioned in a comment, I think this is related to some emerging forms of digital entertainment similar to what I recently suggested we might see in the near future (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.convergenceculture.org\/weblog\/2006\/01\/the_potential_effect_of_soderb.html#comment-247\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>When I have time, I&#8217;ll try to find the patent and give it a read. Unfortunately, that might take a few days. However, I have to remember to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=313\" target=\"blank\">continue<\/a> posting any ideas I have to ensure that I do my part in keeping the obvious stuff from being locked up by deep-pocketed corporations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Clickable Culture comes word that Microsoft has patented something having to do with in-game spectating. From Tony&#8217;s post (Link): Microsoft has just scored its 5,000th patent in the U.S., covering &#8220;technologies that allow people to not just play video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=738\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}