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Originally posted by Hooper
Also. I hate to call you a moron again. But i was personally downloading videos albeit short videos 10 seconds long that looped in 1986 via my 1200 baud modem from a local BBS. Yes i was a nerd and it was enough to spank it to. No it wasnt common. But it was damned sure before their patents were issued. Hell.. i found porn on my dad's computer in 87 cause he was on the university dial up system and had access to the newsgroups. So i'm not sure what you mean by "public domain".
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Hooper you are the first person I've seen who can actually pinpoint a time when they downloaded video before this patent was granted.
Do you still have *any* of the video you downloaded, or do you know the exact BBS you downloaded it from and the approximate date (month and year should be good enough)? Man, having files on floppy that still have the dates would be fantastic, but that's really hoping too much.
Anyway, anyone who can honestly testify that they did in fact use the technology BEFORE Acacia's patent was granted should get in touch with IMPA - it could be that your testimony would be extremely beneficial in the fight against this company.