Computer-implemented method patents are not computer programs. They may cover computer programs, but they are not computer programs themselves. Computer-implement method patents describe functionality. A computer program may be an implement of a computer-implement patent.

Your analogy with a piano breaks down when you consider that a player piano is a single purpose machine. It can only do one thing based on the paper music that you feed it; play piano music. In other words, the paper does nothing to configure the piano. In contrast, computers are general purpose machines in that they can do a variety things based on how they are configured with hardware and software. That is what people are trying to cover with computer-implement method patents, how the computer is configured based mainly on the software installed on the computer. Don't you think that companies that develop advanced crypto or 3d rendering software deserve some sort of patent protection when they develop new algorithms?

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