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Thanks Brad
I think what a lot of do not realize is the financial benefits to the companies paying the license and them with the patents to reduce this market down to 100 players.
The first thing to disappear will be the affiliates, why pay out 33% of your membership revenue to people if there are only 100 players with videos? Search engines will work fine.
Then there is very little competition instead of sharing members with 2,000 sites you will be sharing with 100 sites. This will make it worthwhile for those with the licenses to make sure the patent holders enforce it. URL registration, hosting, CC processing and then upservers. Making sure you cannot operate or do business in any country where they can enforce the patent.
Then the 100 companies left will be fighting amongst themselves to reduce the number of license holders. So every year they can bid for the license, they can pledge to pay what ever they think it is worth to be in the Adult Internet Video market, the patent holders could decide the want 80 license holders paying a higher percentage than the 100.
Remember we have not lost a single surfer. These companies are going to be huge they will be back in the days of the beginning, except now there will be 100 times the surfers.
Sounds like the sky is falling in doesn't it? Well this is worse case scenario and just my opinion. How can you ensure your companies survival?
Well you can sign up for the license, but if the patent is invalidated be sure that those who held out will never let anyone forget it and in a business where trust is a lot this will be a big hammer to beat you with.
Or you can join the fight and support, with a donation, those who have taken the gamble, gone out on a limb and are fighting these patents.
Or you can sit back and let others do you fighting and hope not a lot of other people do the same as you do.
Or you can give $35 a month and blow Acacia out of the water and teach the next to companies with similar patents that we are not to be messed with. Bringing this industry together as one fighting force.
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