Some recent Acacia news article links
 

Streaming Porn Finds Trouble
Company attacks porn site operators in fight over streaming-video patent.

Watch out, webmasters.

If you host streaming video on your website and make money from it, a company called Acacia Research may soon be knocking on your door.

Michael "Spike" Goldberg disputes the number of settlements, as well as most everything else Acacia says. He grimaces when he hears of Acacia's swank Newport Beach, California, offices.

"Acacia is asserting that they have a patent on streaming, which in my perspective is like patenting thin air," Goldberg moans in a high-pitched voice that belies his tough, "we're not going to take it" attitude.

Goldberg is a family man, by many measures. He's a typical Orange County conservative. But he also runs what Newsweek calls the longest-running porn video series ever, as well as one of the most popular amateur adult sites on the Web, Home Grown Video.

http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/s...490399,00.html

AND NOW THE STREAMING PATENT? - 01 August 2003

Richard Chirgwin

Porn Today, Video-on-Demand Tomorrow?

Californian company Acacia Research is the latest to go prospecting in patent river, with a series of lawsuits designed to establish its ownership of audio and video streaming.

The company has launched its legal strategy with lawsuits against pornography sites ? some of the Internet's heaviest users of streaming technology ? but its patents don't stop at the Internet. If its suits succeed and the patents are upheld, Acacia will own audio and video streaming over any digital media.

http://www1.commsworld.com.au/NASApp...WS &from=home

Lots of webmasters have been receiving the "Acacia packet" as it's known -- the best page is the Frequently Asked Questions... I almost expect one of the questions to be "What the fuck?!"

http://www.fuckedcompany.com/