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Originally posted by Jade
For those that decide to not pay by the Dec. 31st deadline...
what do you think would be the worst case scenario and the best case scenario?
Jade
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Jade, the scenerios would be rather obvious. Best case, nothing becomes of it and you continue on with biz as usual. Worst case, they wait a few months to tally up the contacts that they sent packages out to and follow up with patent infringement lawsuits (the validity of which would still be questionable considering patents of this broad nature never really have a good trackrecord for the plantiffs in court).
Considering there are quite possibly MILLIONS of websites serving video downloads or feeds, a patent of this kind is by nature obsurd, and impossible to fully enforce. Consider all of the "regular joes" who have videos on their home computer which are accessed by other regular joes through P2P platforms like KaZaa and Limewire. Thousands upon thousands of video clips are exchanged electronically over the net this way. Yet Acacia seems to want to primarily target adult websites as their guinnea pigs in this monopolization. The whole thing smells sour from start to finish.