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Originally posted by jeroman
Most of their European patents is NOT valid according to
a Patent lawer I spoke with today in sweden.
Another Patent guy said many of their patents they say they
have in Europe are not real patents (?) yet.
Once again - we do not have the same fucked up (sorry)
patent laws as you do in US.
I think Acacia, as mentioned in this thread, is sending out sales letters. BUT they didn't know that adult webmasters knows
how to trick people to get some money and we are not fooled.
People with alot of money settles, and they are US biz, because
the want that insurance just if....
Despite the things I said at the top I'm still talking to
other european patent lawyers just in case......
And also mentioned at the top - should they fly to europe,
go to court to sue me for 1500 per year ? LOL
What I'm worried about is the Webbhosting thing...
If they win in US maybe they can have my US host
to shut me down. Better get a european host as backup.
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remember this:
They have to beat YOU in court by way of a LAWSUIT to shut down YOUR webhosting and/or DNS.
And I don't think they are capable of doing this to 200,000 adult webmasters internationally. Not with a staff of 20 some employees, and not even with millions (of stockholder funds) in the bank to piss away. Their investors will put them out on the sidewalk.
A (few) people that messed up and got default judgments because they did not respond to a LAWSUIT got shut down (temporarily.)
but, last time I looked, even David Lace is back up and doing business, and I don't believe he signed up with them.
http://www.davidlace.com/main.html
The impact acacia will have on adult webmasters who fight them in court will be the same impact a mosquito has on an elephant---even for webmasters who handle their cases in pro per. Sure you may lose by handling your case in pro per---but after acacia deals with the first 50 of these it's all over for acacia and their stock will be less than ten cents a share. Believe it.
KEY: IF you get served a summons and complaint, respond to it. Do not acknowledge their sales letters. They are not legal notifications of anything, and from a law standpoint mean nothing, (unless you acknowledge receipt in some public forum like this that you've received them.)