Well... first off... thanks for asking! Let me say that these views are mine
alone and not the views of the IMPA or any other company.
I should qualify my reply... Acacia is not just coming after Homegrown...
Acacia is coming after tons of companies and not just the adult companies.
Few realize what a threat this is to all of our businesses. Acacia is trying
to get one to three percent of gross income from anyone that uses streams and
or downloads.
That means not just the content providers are fucked but also everyone that
uses their content as well. Not only that... Acacia is asking content
providers AND sponsors to "rat out" anyone that they are affiliated with so
they can go bang on them for that percentage as well.
In short, all companies in the content biz, adult or mainstream, are direly
impacted by the threat Acacia poses.
There is a trade organization called the Internet Media Protection
Association that has hired one of the best patent firms in the world to fight
this.
http://www.fr.com We strongly encourage everyone to support this
organization to help fight Acacia. The IMPA is a non profit corp and I will
post more info about them shortly.
Companies like Video Secrets, Matrix, Lightspeed, AEBN, Audio Communications,
Holio, Gamelink, and more have already dumped serious cash into fighting this
and I strongly encourage everyone to support these companies directly. They
are spending money to protect each and every one of us.
Already, there is a sentiment that "well, they are spending their cash to
fight this so I don't have to do anything..."
That is a bullshit. Would you tell a soldier hitting the beach in Normandy
that he has to buy his own bullets because Hitler doesn't have any
concentration camps on US soil?
Acacia's ambition is to make us all pay them till the day our companies die.
They want to make us slaves to their whims.
This is for all of us to join together and fight as one.
Once again, thanks for asking.