Who Ya Gonna Call? Patentbusters!

This blog has lamented often and loudly about the idiotic patents being granted, principally in the US (but with the EU trying very hard to follow down the same pitiful path). The question is, what can we do about it? Or, to put it another way, who are we going to call? - Patentbusters, of course, in the form of the EFF's Patent Busting project, which seeks to find prior art to invalidate bogus patent claims.

Mind you, with some of the top 10 most wanted, you have to ask why even this is necessary, so blindingly obvious are they. Take ClearChannel, for example, which somehow has a patent for

A system and method for recording live performances (e.g. music concerts), editing them into tracks during the performance, and recording them to media (e.g. CDs) within minutes of the performance ending.

Well, that must have been really hard to invent.