[Swordmaker]

But, but, but, I was downloading music files from the Wrong Number BBS way back in the early 1990s... how can this bozo patent existing art?

I can certainly understand why Apple may have purchased this patent... to avoid getting sued for something they were doing well before the Bozo's lawyer wrote the patent description... PING!

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[Swordmaker]

Seriously, this is another example of patent over-reaching. Software patents should be for really creative ideas, not merely something that is as obvious as downloading a music file from one computer to another.

[SunkenCiv]

a lawyer and author of the 10-year old patent

if that isn't the biggest red flag I've seen in ten years, I don't know what is. ;')