Apple Sued Over iTunes Technology

Yahoo news has an article about Apple being sued over iTunes technology. ZapMedia applied for two patents back in 1999 that were just recently granted. The patents cover a way of sending content from servers to media players over the internet. There are some things that are so obvious they shouldn't be allowed to be patented and this sounds like just one of those cases. Even though ZapMedia may have worked with Apple before the iPod was released this idea of distributing media over the internet couldn't have been their original idea. The internet has been around longer than that and people have been selling media online from its' beginnings.