Originally posted by AlienQ
MPEG describes a file format. The DMT patent is very broadly interpreted to mean, you take content that isn't digitized, you digitize it, you compress it, you put it on a server, you retrieve the file, and you play it back.
MPEG is not the smoking gun prior art, it is just one of the pieces in the process patent. If it weren't for formats like MPEG, then none of this would be possible.
MPEG is not the prior art that invalidates the patent. Let me repeat this one last time, because some smart attorneys have said the same, MPEG is not the prior art that invalidates the patent.
VIdeos and audio files that were downloaded from BBS days is a much better prior art example.
Originally posted by AlienQ
For the sake of the discussion, let's say he did that.. then what? The MPEG consortium is going to reach into their consortiums' dues coffer and give "pornographers" money to fight against Acacia???
Originally posted by AlienQ
M$ made their "offering" to help companies engaged in patent infringement issues well after HomeGrown was sued (and they were using Windows Media).
M$ may have been contacted, but still the issue remains for much of mainstream, the stigma of adult.. the irony of course is that so much of the streaming video is done by adult... so many mainstream companies have connections into adult and are making money from "porn" , but choose to sit on the side of rightiousness when it comes to public defense of adult entertainment companies.
Originally posted by AlienQ
You would think... but, M$ isn't the only major company that could have gotten involved. Real Networks, Apple, etc.. they provide technology that enables streaming video...
So there is no shining mainstream white knight that will save the defendants. The defendants are the "white knights" for the entire adult industry and mainstream.
Fight the Fairy Tales!
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