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Originally posted by harvey
1- what does EXACTLY Acacia claims? How does it affects webmasters?
2- Does it affects only US and some European countries? what about the remaining european countries, Asia, South America or even Africa?
3- how can they be sueing the webmasters?
4- If they don't fuck around with the ISP and hosting providers, how the fuck can they know which technology is being used FOR SURE?
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1) Acacia claims the following:
The process of storing compressed video in a libary for distribution over a distributed network (optionally at the request of the remote user)
This is translated into:
The process of streaming or downloading, audio/video files from a web server.
If you have ANY kind of audio/video from avi, wav, mp3, wmv, asf, rm, qt, flash, etc.... you are infringing on patent claims by companies iuke Acacia, SightSound, and USA Video.
2) Acacia has patents in INTERNATIONAL countries, they are not limited to just the United States! (
http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/patents.htm)
3) Patent Law allows them to target ANYONE that infringes upon their patent claims. You would naturally think that they should be targeting companies who produce the technologies like Apple, Microsoft, and Real Networks, but their tactic is to make their money by licensing the patent to companies who aren't big enough to fight back.
4) Their patent is written broadly to not be specific to any kind of technology. Their patent didn't invent any tangible piece of code, it's a process patent that describes an IDEA. A person that "uses" their patented idea, pieces together current technologies.
If this is first time that you are learning about this very concerning issue, read more at my website at
http://www.FightThePatent.com
It is my personal crusade to bring awareness and to help find prior art for the defendants in litigation to invalidate the patent claims.
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