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Originally posted by fiveyes
http://www.iiiii.com/sachiko2.avi (converted to DIVX AVI file)
http://riverbbs.net/cds/share/2/animate/files.bbs (File Description)
SACHIKO.ZIP FLI: Oriental girl playing music.
http://riverbbs.net/cds/share/2/animate/ (Listing)
SACHIKO.ZIP 16-Oct-1989 23:26 133k
http://riverbbs.net/cds/share/2/animate/SACHIKO.ZIP (available)
SACHIKO.FLI 10/16/1989 11:26 PM
(24 Keyframes, a bit over 1 second in length)
FLIVIEW for WINDOWS
http://sac-ftp.gratex.sk/graph43.html (Listing)
ftp://sac-ftp.gratex.sk/graph/pwflc252.zip (available)
One part of the prior art that would invalidate Acacia's patent(s) is tangible evidence of video having been digitized, compressed and made available for selection and download to remote locations before their patent application.
This isn't some dry technical document that describes the invention in a way that their lawyers could pick apart and argue about for weeks, I'm talking about concrete examples of people having done what is described in their invention before they got around to filing for it.
The problem with finding these examples is "where are they more than ten years later?" Hearsay evidence such as "I remember downloading 2 second fuck videos in 1966" doesn't count. Also, files stored on hard disks are suspect, file dates can easily be changed on Unix.
However, a number of BBS's through the late 1980's mounted CD-ROM's, making the files available to their members. These are ideal places to look, you just can't tamper with a pressed CD-ROM and a file date there is a file date you can bank on. CD-ROM's that were made especially for BBS's had a file named "files.bbs" within them, which gave a description of each file so the user could make a better decision whether to download or not.
Anyway, what you see here is my first find, from October of 1989! There are more out there, and we need them all!!!
Send information of these finds to Spike @ homegrownvideo.com
as well as brandon @ fightthepatent.com and remember:
Support <A HREF="http://www.impai.org/" target="_blank">IMPA</A> to protect our usage of on-line media and <A HREF="http://www.fightthepatent.com/" target="_blank">Fight the Patent!</A>
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Then you need to also lok for the GRASPRT files as well. They came out right before the .FLI files.
Far -L should have plenty on the old hard drive of the Homegrown BBS. If you want these files I can fire up the old BBS does spike want them emailed to her?
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