Whatever happened to Acacia and their video streaming patent?
 

Did those companies that were fighting the multimedia streaming patent ever win their case; or, did they settle and sign a non-disclosure agreement with Acacia?

All the threads just stopped one day.....then, nothing.

Just wondering?

They made their money from all those idiots that payed them after they got a letter that came unregistered mail, and then went away.

I got my letter and sent it to the bin and laughed at all the scared webmasters.

What a bunch of fools.

Can someone post a list of the sites that gave in to them and signed sweetheart deals? I wiped my ass with the letter they sent me.

The FSC stepped up and oh wait that was not them on that issue either.

Ask the homegrown people and those that sent them money (not Acacia).

Acacia tested their patent out on the adult bizz and they were somewhat succesfull. I believe TopBucks and Homegrown donked some cash of to them. As some others, the smaller ones took a chance and laughed it off, Acacia knew damn well that it would cost them more to go after a smaller guy then t would eventually bring in. They moved their focus to mainstream after adult. But haven't heard much either.

Um homegrown did not pay them.

My bad, I know Tb made some deal with them and at the time there were some posts about it, because affiliates were worried. You know typical gfy drama, what if this and that, will I still get paid blabla... so some of the bigger guys made deals with Acacia, I am sure a list could be found somewhere

Ya I figured, just wanted to clarify. Several did and I remember most of them. Also remember a few others that threw people under the bus in the first place so that they got their information. I am not for drama though and will not be the one outing them again here.

You are right, I mentioned TB because it was public knowledge. I think they did it to bring back some peace to a bunch of concerning affiliates.
But I remember the information fishing..

They moved on. No news is good news. Good. Fuckerz.

They was a something. Though they deny it.

Exactly, thats what the smart people did.

Hey Robert, (off topic) she showed up after church. She was cool. I'll ell you about it later...:thumbsup

Sure is funny that after Matrix did 'something' with them, is when I started getting Acacia letters. Someone sold me out... someone that I bought video content from...

I believe CE paid them off.

Yeah, she text me and said thank you. Glad it went well.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Same thing I did with mine.

:)

As was pimpdogg (EC) I believe. Could be wrong.

You're not wrong.

word was that Matrix sold their whole list to them but people still buy their content and dont give a fuck about them selling everyone out.

I havent done business with them since then either.

Damn, just read the latest news on their entry page. Looks like their still doing the same thing. Acquiring patents and then blackmailing companies into a settlement, nice business model.

Thanks for asking... happy to bring you up to date.

Homegrown NEVER settled - in fact we are still in the case along with most of the other companies that chose to fight.

Our cost to fight went down years ago to almost nothing. Everyone always wanted to know why wasn't mainstream involved; well, as soon as Acacia sued mainstream, we were able to pretty much kick back and watch them spend their time and money to deal with Acacia. Since our Defense Group had already laid down our groundwork we got to watch while they played catch up.

A while back, Acacia tried to let us all off the hook with a sweetheart walkaway deal and we did not take it. Remember, if we invalidate the patents in the end then everyone gets off the hook. If we get out on just "non-violation" then those that chose to settle will still continue to pay and Acacia is free to keep going after people. I think I recall also that Acacia tried to invalidate parts of the patents themselves in an effort to preserve what little is left to protect that the Judge has already given them a hard time about. Members of the Defense Group had a good laugh about that ridiculous strategy.

Don't know when we go back to court but I can say that it is not looking good so far for those patent pirates. Maybe they can go get a job in Somalia when this is all said and done.:1orglaugh

The people who settled have to keep paying for a bunch more years. People that just didn't respond I still would say, imo, that you shouldn't admit that since it is an inappropriate action under the circumstances because it was a legal notice - even if it did seem, like it did to us at first, to be a preposterous joke.

Well, I guess it still is a joke but we are still waiting for the Judge to deliver the final punchline in the case.

yup, that's what I remember too

You mean took the license, right?