Why doesn't this surprise me? "ContentGuard employees are claiming that Microsoft and Time Warner, having bought ContentGuard's DRM-related patents, are now essentially giving them away through various deals and not channeling royalties to ContentGuard." Given that ContentGuard employees wanted to make money from all rights management on the web, effortlessly skimming from other people's creativity, I don't really have any sympathy. Though I'm sure Microsoft and Time Warner weren't acting benevolently; as the author suggests, they were likely looking at other DRM IP coming out of the woodwork and decided to get what they could out of an increasingly bad investment.
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