I'm in Australia, I wonder when Acacia will come after me
Personally if I was some of the people at Acacia I would probably be considering increasing my personal security. There is no doubt that when you start trying to meddle with peoples revenue steams that one or two will get a little crankier than others.
As far as I know, Logie-Baird came up with the idea of sending video from one place to another using wires or radio. Until Acacia can show me otherwise I wont be caving into them.
Lets see all the earlier examples of sending video from one place to another.. slow scan tv, television, telephonic fax, radio fax. Computer based examples of sending moving images, well obviously alot of the stuff we used to do with microcomputers in the early 1980s (no matter how rudimentary) predates Acacias patents.
As far as responding to litigation goes , I'd be looking toward the people who supply me with the technology to deal with video online. Apple, Adobe, my internet providers. These people have made technology available to me to use, encouraged me to do so, they have a part in this somewhere.
The one thing this will do, I hope, is show to the world that patent law needs to be balanced against the common good. This applies to genetic patents and the like. Acacia and companies like them
provide no benefit to society. They're akin to leaches.