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Old 09-25-2003, 01:44 PM  
NetRodent
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Originally posted by GigaChris
I dont understand why they dont go after companies like Real networks, Microsoft & Apples Quicktime... These are the companies that make the players that allow us to veiw video content on the web
It because they're after precedents. Acacia views the adult industry as "low hanging fruit". They obviously feel that its easier to intimidate and get legal judgements against adult companies than the likes of Microsoft.

Acacia invented nothing. If ANYONE is due royalties for the technology we're using its the following people:
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
http://www.icann.org/biog/cerf.htm
http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/index.htm
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