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Originally posted by NLB
First off, Matrix when originally serverd by Acacia we spent $25,000 to fight them.
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Was this before the Defense Fund was formed by companies banding together to pool their financial resources?
The buy-in is 35K that would have gotten you legal coverage.
I completely understand your business decision... that 25K you spent in legal fees, you don't get back..and as insult-to-injury, you have to pay them a yearly license fee.
The message here is for those looking to fight, it does cost money to do so.
In looking at their Webmaster License Agreement:
http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/pr...eAgreement.pdf
If you project to make 100K to 150K in a year, you would owe them an initial fee of $5,000.
Then an additional royalty is charged if your Gross Sales was higher than projected.. so let's things were going good and you made an extra $50K, then you owe them an additional $4,050
I can't find the reference to 2% of GROSS (if anyone has, please post), but the point is telling them you estimate $100K/year and then actually making $150K/year means you owe them a total of about $10K.
Spike and Far-L along with the other defendants have a Defense Fund that has a buy-in of 35K. Far-L said that they are working on a plan that maybe people can pay a few thousand a month (ie $2K)...
So if you want to contribute to the Defense Fund, figure out the logistics with Far-L by calling him at 206-852-5566 (serious inquiries only).
Look at their strategy.. if 100,000 websites paid the minimum royalty (since they were smaller sites, making less than 100K/year) of $1,500/year that equates to $150M/year!
How's that for a business model? No Product, No customers, No Customer Service, no Headaches.
Before you go jumping on their bandwagon, their patent is absurd and will get invalidated..that's my opinion based upon my research.
Fight the Patent!