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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
With all respect to your company and your accomplishments, sometimes people stand and fight on principle. Not just in business, but in life. If it wasn't for people standing and fighting against the odds, regardless of the consequences, then much of what we consider to be important, both in this industry, and in life itself, would not be what it is today.
It was your choice to make, and you have to do what you believe was right for you, but along with that will come some second guessing by those who would have liked to see you make a different choice.
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Blah blah blah.. it's like nobody can comprehend this simple idea:
It's easy to talk shit about this when you don't have much at stake yourself.
If Acacia wins the suit and gets you.. what are they going to get? $1000? $10,000? 50,000??
FM probably had
*THE LARGEST* amount of potential retroactive liability in the industry. He mentioned in that other thread that it was possibly in the low 8 digits (I think thats what he said??) meaning
10 MILLION DOLLARS or more.
FM already said that his paysite companies were sold & that his consulting contract with the new owners is ending soon. I'm sure the last thing he or the new owners (or YOU, if you were in that situation) wants is the be hit with a 10+ MILLION dollar fine for the RETROACTIVE patent infringements (if Acacia wins their claims) a year from now.
Now taking that into consideration. If it were YOU, with that much money at stake...when you can buy this "insurance policy" as FM called it, that will COMPLETELY WIPE OUT the possibilty of Acacia getting anything for retroactive infrigements and STILL fully support the IMPA.. what would you do?
If you have $5,000 in maximum possibile retroactive liability and you want to hold out... no big deal.
Remember, FM was around on the net since like 1995 or something... he was there through the industries best years. Alot of you just hopped in during these last couple years as this shit got all competitive and the profits were divided among tons more webmasters.
There's just no comparison here.