 So my channel, you know, is about free and open-source software and One of the things that goes along with free and open-source software commonly is you know Copyright laws and although I think copyrights are very important because if I didn't have a copyright on my software That means anyone could take it and close it up The fact that I have a copyright on it allows me to put an open license on it a free license on it That prevents people from locking it up Copyright system in a whole as a whole though is is completely messed up and needs to be revamped But copyrights in my opinion are important But one thing that I think is just never a good idea never a good thing I've never seen one case where it's a good thing is patents patents is basically I have an idea and now nobody can do that Even if they do it differently, you know if you do it different enough Maybe but they they are so vague with patents that they're Ridiculous and this is a great example another example before I even get to this I'm gonna talk about you know You look around there's patent numbers on everything about 10 years ago. I bought a corkboard for my room You know to pin things up and it had three patent numbers on it I didn't look up what they were but three patents it was a corkboard It was literally a piece of cork that's glued together with a wooden frame that you stick pins in and it had three patent numbers on it But even that compared to this So what is this this thing? I came in the mail a while ago It was one of those scams that car dealerships do they send around and oh if if your VIN number matches this or whatever You get a free car bring it down to sea You know normally I throw away, but what it was is you would pull out a little piece of plastic And this little screen lit up with these numbers on here now It's not really a screen right? It's just a piece of plastic with some transparent translucent numbers on it and a light behind You know, but I gave it to my kid my kid won use it because it was it was cool because it lit up and it did look pretty nice, but Realized on the back it says here. Can you read that? There's a patent number what it says here is this digital electronic device I Don't know how it's a digital electronic device once you once we get to it looking at it Is not a toy and then it says patent number I'll give you the patent number because you look it up I look it up on Google patents and it's just ridiculous it's they've had a patent on this for since 2012 but the patent number is D 698867 made in China. So that's what it says on the back And you think oh Patent is there is there some sort of circuitry going on here in the background? So I pride it open. So another battery. There are two batteries There goes the other battery just dropped it and literally the only thing else in here Is an LED light behind The piece of plastic that has a number on it. There's no Circuitry or anything other than the circuit the connecting batteries. So basically I just fell apart whatever It is such a simple device. I don't even know what the patent is for it Well, if you go to the patent it basically says that it's a device that displays a digital information On users action and the user action is pulling a tab. So basically their patent Is it not an LED it isn't on the batteries it isn't hooking a battery to the LEDs It isn't even displaying the light through the the plastic their patent is on Turning it on by pulling a tab out How is that any different than than a light switch? I mean, it's just ridiculous that this thing has a patent has had a patent for ten years now And we'll continue to have this patent. I think it's set to expire in 2028 does that make sense Yeah, she pens pens very usually it's it's 20 years and you can renew them for certain things certain things you can't But that's just ridiculous that they would even consider allowing a patent on something like that It's literally an LED hooked to two batteries With a piece of plastic in between and the patent is you can pull out the tab to connect the battery That is what the patent is Look it up again. I read the number earlier in the video. Everything's falling apart now But there's no no electronics or anything It was an LED to batteries and a piece of plastic with some numbers on it and they have a patent on that That is ridiculous. They're gonna be people out there who will defend stuff like this. You are either a jerk or an idiot That's what it comes down to you're a greedy jerk who thinks that maybe you can make millions of dollars By ripping people off with stuff like this or you just have no clue what you're talking about Those are the only two options. I'm sorry if you think that patents like this are acceptable in any Facet it's just ridiculous. So anyway, that's my rant for today. Have a great day