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Originally posted by stocktrader23
Acacia claims they have a pioneering patent on DMT (streaming media). The article mentioned above states that a pioneering patent is a rarity and relies on "unprecendented, breakthrough discoveries". So were people streaming digital media before 1991?
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According to at least one of the articles I read, they said there were confrences in the 80's where people talked about the digital streaming they had already done, so it was not (according to what I have read) an invention at all. They simple were the first to patent something that people had been talking about and using for years.
Here is a quote from one article:
"At network specific conferences and journals in the 1980s, university and corporate groups disclosed their activities in sending compressed multimedia data out over networks."
http://www.chillingeffects.org/ecom/...?ResourceID=72