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Old 10-23-2003, 04:13 PM  
triumph
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Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
After careful review, they've decided that merely linking to another site that provides video or links to yet another site that may or may not provide video is simply too narrow.

It has been determined that since you are capable of purchasing a computer from any number of retailers and therefore are enabled with the ability to connect to the Internet and possibly register a domain name that you could conceivably put unlicensed video on in the future, and hence, if you are breathing you are liable to Acacia for patent infringement.
ACACIA = legal extortion

I think they have some balls, trying to sue everyone, and I also think someone big is backing them! I mean someone like microsoft, aol, etc...
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