British Telecom has an ancient, bullshit patent on hyperlinks (that is, the Web). Nevermind prior art, BT is just pressing forward with a plan to sue the hell out of every ISP it can lay hands on before the patent expires in five years. God rot 'em.
(Thanks, Stefan!)
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