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Originally posted by Groove
But Acacia is presently more interested in first picking the low
hanging fruit [like us] so that they will have the funds and legal
precedents to later take on the big guys such as CNN, etc.
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or, they may never hit up the big guys, for the fact it will get them stuck in court for years......
I believe their strategy is not go after companies with deep pockets or companies that make the streaming server software, far more money to be made picking on smaller websites.. even ones that don't make more than $50K/year.. atleast they will get $1,500/year from them in licensing fees... multiply that by, say 100,000 websites, and you got $150M per year.
That makes more sense than spending millions in expenses to fight the big boys.
Problem is, websites are fighting back! HomeGrownVideo and many other companies are taking the Patent Pepsi Challenge.
And I am sure in their "risk assessment" document in preparation for their "attack", they never considered that someone like me would stop their own business and consulting efforts, dedicate a full time effort to bringing awareness and finding prior art for the last 2 months, and then turnaround and launch the start of a non-profit organization whose charter is to continue the work of FightThePatent.com, and focus on ALL patent abuse cases, but this time with more money and resources.
Fight the Patent!