Intertainer Files Video Patent Lawsuit

Remember Intertainer? The company launched in 1996 saying it would deliver Hollywood movies via the Internet. It gained investors like Microsoft, Sony, NBC and Comcast but ended up shutting down before launching much of anything. In 2002 Intertainer shut down after filing a lawsuit alleging that its own investors---Sony, Time Warner, and NBC Universal--refused to license films and force Interntainer out of business. Now, the NY Times is reporting that Intertainer has filed a patent suit in U.S. District Court in Marshall, Texas saying that Apple, Google and Napster infringe on their 2005 patent covering the "commercial distribution of audio and video over the Internet". Links via NY Times and DMW.
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