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Old 07-20-2003, 02:52 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally posted by KRL
A bunch of lawyers who probably had signed up and felt burned by shitty porn sites and recurring billing on their credit cards got together and said lets fuck these porn guys over real good.

No a bunch of lawyers who make a living out of royalties on Patents or suing people.

This is an industry in the US and a very dispicable one at that but it's completely legal.

The patent office being a goverment body is full of lowly paid people with not enough knowledge on what they are allowing patents for. So they are granting them when they should be throwing them out. This is the real cause of the problem.

Acacia have the patents, they are legal and can be enforced. What is needed to bring them down is a court order.

Hopefully next week Spike at HomeGrown will have a site up explaining everything.
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