Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Patents [video]

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John does a good job of explaining the difference between software patents and traditional hardware patents to the layperson. He notes that while hardware patents are usually very specific, software patents can be so general as to cover ideas that the patent holder "had never even dreamed of". He also strongly implies that the US Innovation Act <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Act>, after being passed by the House, was killed in the Senate by lobbyists representing trial lawyers.

Video not available in my country. Would be more ironic if the segment was about distribution laws.

It's not. It's pretty informative on patent trolls, with people like the Rackspace general counsel being interviewed and calling it an extortion game.

Sometimes rewriting the URL helps. See if this works for you:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3bxcc3SM_KA

Nope, that only works for bypassing the requirement to login for age restricted videos.

Interesting - what country are you in? It is available in Denmark.

Blocked in 4 countries: AU GB IM JE. [0]

Someone posted this tool for the last John Oliver video (Snowden's Interview). Some more digging finds that:

>Apparently Foxtel has the rights to the show in Australia, so the clips get region-restricted there. The show airs on Sky Atlantic in the UK, but the YouTube clips are unrestricted there after the show airs [1]

[0]: http://polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi?ytid=https%3A%2F%2F...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2z7pu7/last_week_to...

https://vid.me/65Qw

Try Hola unblocker

try proxtube add-on. it tries IP's from various countries until it finds one that works

EDIT: https://proxtube.com/

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