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Originally posted by Cassie
as of right now, i think they are just watching and waiting on what happens with this industry to see how to tackle this situation. why they would wait is beyond me since, from what i gather, we are all using the same platform (more or less) to stream video. what really gets me though is why would they go after an individual webmaster and not those who create the software we use to stream videos (ie, qt, ms, java...etc)?
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Because it is so much easier to go after the companies who actually have the content and use it for profit. They not only can fund their further efforts thru these actions, they set, or attempt to set, precedents which can aid in their final cases with the validity of the patents.