If the fault with the monitor turns out to be due to a bad inverter then I’ve never ever managed to find a place where I can buy the bare inverter itself. You can if you are lucky find someone selling replacement inverter boards salvaged from other dead monitors, but not just the inverter itself. They just don’t seem to leave China as components.

Interesting topic. I really can’t get upset over the fact that a number can be illegal, because that the fact it could protect my interests someday. The problem is with the *defacto* guilty until proven innocent model in the US,combined with the ignorance of defense attorneys, juries, and justices involved with such cases. Very probable that an exact duplicate of a number could exist, and that a number string could exist in a copyrighted number. The test shouldn’t be mere possession, but does the number execute a particular copyrighted application,image,text,or display anything that otherwise would be illegal. Would be too easy to blame the corporations, and ignore that fact much of the public would figuratively steal a Cent, is a huge problem as well. druid, thanks for the free speech flag offer but my desktop is black, because that’s the color that to my eye allow all icons easier to see. Perhaps I’ll use it as an icon for something.

It is not just a case of the ‘numbers’ , but actually using colours to represent numbers is already patented, so its also a breach of patent rights.
An example is the use of ‘colour charts’, which were used to protect computer games software in the 80′s.
Think Software projects, Manic miner etc, what many people failed to realize was that the ‘colours’ were actually part of the computer program and data rather than being generated from a mathematical formula.