Software patents are clearly a restriction of freedom for anyone who is threatened with a patent lawsuit.

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To make buying such software a crime would be seen as restriction of individual freedoms.

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By downloading only what's necessary at the moment, the client overcomes the Blu-ray program size restriction and delivers what customers have already come to expect from leading Korean IPTV and cable companies using the software in their STBs.

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