Kingfish

Ok first let me offer this up that I am not bringing this up to be divisive, but I am beginning to have some real concerns, and I think there are a lot of people out there that have similar concerns.

As you probably know by now Acacia has started sending out letters to webmasters that do nothing more than link to sponsors calming the linking webmasters violate Acacia?s patent by inducing or contributing to the infringement of the sponsor. It is my guess that if you take any program overall a very small percentage of webmasters in that program make more than $3,000 a year from that program. I suspect most of these webmasters simply do not have the cash on hand to pay a license fee to Acacia nor do they have the money to arrange transportation to California and retain a patent attorney to fight the claim. Given that grim situation for probably the majority of your affiliates what do you have in place to help your affiliates? Do you plan to pay your affiliate?s license fees? Do you plan to pay their legal fees? Do you plan to reimburse them for their costs. Again I don?t bring this up to be divisive, but it seems to me most program owners don?t have anything in place to address the concerns of their affiliates once they actually get a summons instead of a sales letter.